Flexibility, security, and extensibility: A new era of centralized patient monitoring
- Featuring
- March 17 2025
- Duration 1: 8: 45
In this Becker’s webinar, Tom Cushing shares lessons he’s learned from his experience as a clinician, a first responder and an IT advisor that have informed his thinking around how to develop scalable, enterprise-wide patient monitoring systems. His unique background informs his approach to what he calls “universal, centralized, physiological patient monitoring,” and its impact on clinical workflow and patient care.
At-a-glance:
- [14:28] The strategy: IDN-wide patient monitoring
- [29:24] Legacy vs. new thinking
- [33:57] Considering costs
- [40:45] Quick wins
Tom Cushing wears many hats: critical care nurse, lieutenant and first responder at his local volunteer fire department and Principal IT advisor at one of the largest healthcare systems in the Northeastern United States. With a multifaceted perspective comes a deep understanding of the cross-functional needs and opportunities in patient monitoring – from helping clinicians and IT teams work more efficiently, to making it easier to scale when the need arises, to seamlessly tracking patients along their treatment journey.
Listen as he shares how making a seismic shift in patient monitoring system design and deployment delivers clinical, technological, financial and operational benefits, both within surge periods and times of normal operation. And find out ways in which his experience during the COVID-19 pandemic shaped his desire for patient monitoring solutions that scale. “Over the past few years, the pandemic and sudden surges in admissions have given us a better understanding of what is needed for physiological monitoring,” he says. “IDN design must allow for quick expansion, total visibility and emergency preparedness.”
You’ll learn:
- Cushing’s approach to devising and deploying an IDN-wide patient monitoring ecosystem
- His case to his leadership team that led to an innovative approach to purchasing and implementing patient monitoring systems across the IDN’s sites
- Best practices and words of wisdom when creating and implementing a patient monitoring system
- What to look for in your next patient monitoring system and a patient monitoring system partner
Over the past few years, the pandemic and sudden surges in admissions have given us a better understanding of what is needed for physiological monitoring,” he says. “IDN design must allow for quick expansion, total visibility and emergency preparedness.
Thomas P. Cushing
Principal Advisor for IT applications
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Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Results in other cases may vary.