IDN-wide patient monitoring

With a centralized approach to patient monitoring, health systems can effectively standardize data, software and protocols (including alarm configurations and workflows) and enable seamless interoperability at an IDN level. This standardization provides a common user interface, enables continuity of data collection and timely data access, drives adoption of standard clinical workflows and subsequently reduces variability in the delivery of care. Centralized patient monitoring also supports tech equity across sites to provide a consistent patient experience and standards.

Deploying a single instance of patient monitoring software across an entire IDN makes high-quality, actionable patient data accessible to clinicians anytime, anywhere in the health system. It also allows for increased opportunities for collaborative care and visibility of clinical and operational performance that can facilitate optimizations, such as process improvement.

IDN-wide patient monitoring unlocks essential system scalability. With one patient monitoring system across the entire organization, IDNs can plan for additional capacity in advance of a patient surge to rapidly expand and contract standardized monitoring capabilities wherever and whenever needed.

A single, IDN-wide patient monitoring system allows for hardened security. One centrally deployed system limits potential entry points through the firewall and enables more frequent security updates that can be managed remotely across the entire organization.

Philips offers the only centrally deployable patient monitoring software available today and the innovative, strategic partnership that ensures it is deployed, adopted and managed effectively and efficiently. The fourth generation of Philips Patient Information Center iX (PIC iX) is key to revolutionizing patient monitoring to become a centrally managed, secure, integrated informatics ecosystem that can be deployed at scale across an IDN.¹ PIC iX delivers significant clinical and operational impact and accelerates the clock speed of innovation.