Sam Brusco, Associate Editor06.21.22
GE Healthcare recently unveiled Portrait Mobile, a wireless patient monitoring system that allows continuous monitoring throughout the patient’s stay.
The system helps detect patient deterioration. Early detection of deterioration can help reduce length of stay and ICU admissions. The device includes patient-worn wireless sensors that communicate with a mobile monitor.
Portrait Mobile captures respiration rate, oxygen saturation, and pulse rate for general ward and post-surgery patients wirelessly and continuously. Caregivers can then spot changes that may signal development of cardiorespiratory complications or infectious disease.
“In an evaluation clinical study conducted at a London hospital in the UK, 90 percent of nurses reported that they feel more reassured about their patient’s condition when continuous monitoring is used versus vital signs spot check measuring,” Erno Muuranto, Engineering Director at GE Healthcare in Finland told the press. “Portrait Mobile provides reliable measurement technology and meaningful alarms in a mobile setting.”
Using the device patients can move around the hospital without restriction to the bedside. Visitors can also interact without technology getting in the way. Patients and family members can be given peace of mind knowing monitoring is constant even if the patient leaves their room.
Portrait Mobile was developed in GE Healthcare’s global center of excellence for monitoring solutions in Helsinki, Finland where engineers have been working on patient monitoring tech for decades. The system’s routable communications architecture lets hospitals leverage existing network infrastructure when deploying the system.
The system helps detect patient deterioration. Early detection of deterioration can help reduce length of stay and ICU admissions. The device includes patient-worn wireless sensors that communicate with a mobile monitor.
Portrait Mobile captures respiration rate, oxygen saturation, and pulse rate for general ward and post-surgery patients wirelessly and continuously. Caregivers can then spot changes that may signal development of cardiorespiratory complications or infectious disease.
“In an evaluation clinical study conducted at a London hospital in the UK, 90 percent of nurses reported that they feel more reassured about their patient’s condition when continuous monitoring is used versus vital signs spot check measuring,” Erno Muuranto, Engineering Director at GE Healthcare in Finland told the press. “Portrait Mobile provides reliable measurement technology and meaningful alarms in a mobile setting.”
Using the device patients can move around the hospital without restriction to the bedside. Visitors can also interact without technology getting in the way. Patients and family members can be given peace of mind knowing monitoring is constant even if the patient leaves their room.
Portrait Mobile was developed in GE Healthcare’s global center of excellence for monitoring solutions in Helsinki, Finland where engineers have been working on patient monitoring tech for decades. The system’s routable communications architecture lets hospitals leverage existing network infrastructure when deploying the system.
