Medical Device Integration solution

The challenge to integrate medical devices and leverage data

Hospital patients are increasingly surrounded by medical devices – from nurse call systems and infusion pumps to wearable devices and physiological monitors. As the number of medical devices grows, so too does the complexity of capturing and integrating near-real-time data from these sources. This creates a challenge for hospitals looking to fully leverage digitalization in both critical and general care environments.

In addition, when valuable data from these sources is not automatically captured and integrated, it must be manually entered by staff. This brings in human error, delays in updates, missing data, traceability issues and even security concerns from potential data breaches or unauthorized access. Most importantly, manual data entry increases the workload for caregivers while diverting them from patient care.

The main obstacle to the automatic capture and integration of this data is a lack of interoperability, with each medical device operating with its own proprietary protocols. Hospitals must often use vendor-provided interfacing solutions that struggle to integrate competitor devices, meaning that:

• Some solutions can collect data but do not support near-real-time alarm transmission
• Some solutions cannot directly interface with nurse call systems, creating disconnected layers of communication
• Resulting inefficiencies lead to system instabilities, increased latency and complex troubleshooting that ultimately affects patient care

Improve patient safety and ease clinicians’ workload

Hospitals, their staff and their patients can benefit from a truly vendor-independent MDI solution that allows them to seamlessly connect nurse call systems, wearable devices, physiological monitors and other medical equipment.

Ascom’s Medical Device Integration solution delivers a platform that gathers information from different medical devices that communicate through proprietary interfaces. The information is then forwarded to downstream systems through industry-standard communication protocols. This reduces the interoperability and integration challenges posed by proprietary interfaces to ensure near-real-time, low-latency alert transmission, as well as automating and interconnecting medical equipment with patient records to improve the reliability, speed and security of medical data.

Ascom’s MDI solution supports drivers for over 80% of medical devices on the market with a guarantee to develop additional drivers on demand, ensuring that hospitals can scale, adapt and integrate without technical barriers.

In addition, integration with Ascom Myco 4 professional smartphones consolidates MDI and its applications into a single device, on a single screen, enhancing efficiency and usability.

Ascom Medical Device Integration, a solution for the entire hospital