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Health monitoring system for better patient care and experience
Advanced sensor technology and data analytics help improve patient monitoring of vital signs and care delivery in remote environments. Combination of hardware and software automates time-consuming and critical tasks for medical personnel, reducing workloads and potential errors, states Honeywell
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oneywell has developed a real-time health-monitoring system, which captures and records patients’ vital signs,
both within hospital setting as well as remotely.
Honeywell’s solution uses advanced sensing technology to monitor vital signs via a skin patch, which connects the data instantaneously to healthcare providers on mobile devices and an online dashboard.
Extreme demand The NHS has faced extreme demand and pressure in recent years, spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic and a shortage of healthcare staff . In the last quarter of 2022, the NHS had 124,000 full-time staff vacancies – higher than pre-pandemic levels – with nursing staff accounting for one-third of these. This is on top of the World Health Organisation (WHO) warning in September 2022 of the severe pressures caused by a shortage of healthcare staff in Europe.
The need to manage demand amid the ongoing healthcare worker shortage is leading more healthcare providers to implement technologies and tools to improve effi ciency, while still maintaining high levels of care. Honeywell’s real-time health monitoring system provides doctors and nurses a solution to remotely monitor patients in the hospital or at home. The system, designed to be continuously connected to patients, alerts clinicians to changes in patients’ vital signs, and markedly reduces the time required to collect, analyse and apply patient data as actionable insights.
Automation in healthcare By automating essential processes, the remote monitoring system can help reduce clinician workloads and potentially save hours of error-prone administrative tasks. Across the healthcare industry, the
34 May 2023 | Automation
The dashboard of Honeywell’s real-time health-monitoring system
growing trend of telemedicine and implementing remote patient monitoring is helping enhance the overall patient experience.
“Safety and attentiveness are basic expectations for patients being treated in hospitals, and continuous patient monitoring is a necessity for doctors and nurses to provide best-in-class medical care,” said Robert Robinson, Healthcare Vice President and General Manager, Honeywell Sensing & Safety Technologies. “Our solution provides intelligent alerts in the system, helping healthcare providers monitor patients concurrently and improve response time when emergency intervention is needed. At Honeywell, we are committed to a future in which healthcare providers have digital tools to make their jobs more effi cient and accurate, and where every patient can receive high-quality care – where and when they need it.”
Healthcare anywhere at any time The technology unlocks the ability to provide care for patients in the home, at ambulatory care centres or elsewhere outside of hospital walls. By bringing
vital sign monitoring closer to where patients live, patients can receive care in their own environments, hospital readmissions can be reduced, and beds can be freed up for those requiring in- person attention.
Honeywell’s system will also help
improve patient quality of life and satisfaction, an often overlooked benefi t of remote monitoring. The ability to have vitals monitored in real time, regardless of where patients are, provides greater freedom and fl exibility without needing to make regular trips to the hospital or being tethered to a hospital bed.
Continuously evolving The healthcare industry is continuously evolving to maintain environments where clinicians can deliver high-quality care to patients. The real-time health monitoring system is part of Honeywell’s robust portfolio of healthcare technologies that drive better patient outcomes.
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