Spacelabs Healthcare Awarded for Patient Monitoring

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Spacelabs Healthcare Inc. (Issaquah, WA) received a Frost & Sullivan award for its patient-monitoring system that improves hospital efficiency and reduces the chances for error. Clinicians can use the Intesys Clinical Suite (ICS) to instantly report patient information at the point of care because the system eliminates handwritten patient charts and manual data entry and recording. The integrated system is available to clinicians anytime and anywhere.

Spacelabs received the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Technology award for ICS last fall. The user-friendly system has a Clinical Event Interface (CEI) that provides event alarm messages and notifications systems to communicate with frequently used hospital devices such as pagers, voice-over-Internet phones, and voice badges.

Frost & Sullivan applauded the technology's open architecture, networking capabilities, and interfacing with third-party solutions. Other features of the ICS include a real-time vital signs viewer and electronic flow sheet, a 12-lead interface that can export electrocardiograph reports, and a tool that collects admission, discharge, and transfer information for storage in a centralized database.

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