Taking the leap: 6 reasons to standardize patient monitoring across your IDN
- Featuring
- July 15 2025
- 5 min read
It’s a message Amy Martin embraces: Patient monitoring is a mission-critical system, so it’s time to treat it like one. As Head of Standards for Monitoring at Philips, Martin has seen health systems establish uniform platforms for their PACS and EMR – encouraging common workflows, timely information access and scalability – while leaving their patient monitoring fragmented. Here, she shares the risks of following the legacy model, as well as the transformative benefits of moving to a standardized monitoring solution, ideally one that connects data across the entire integrated delivery network.
At-a-glance:
- Monitoring platforms and configurations often vary across health systems – not only among care sites but even from unit to unit within the same hospital.
- Continuing with such a monitoring patchwork can burden staff, affect patient safety and influence the patient experience, while failing to address healthcare trends.
- Standardizing patient monitoring across the enterprise promotes a consistent care experience, supports frontline teams and provides health systems with needed flexibility.
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