Philips OB TraceVue is designed to ensure comprehensive coverage across the obstetrical care continuum—from the first antepartum visit to delivery, postpartum, newborn record, discharge and postpartum follow-up visits. Maternal care can be tracked across multiple pregnancies.
Key clinical features of OB TraceVue
- Continuous trace displays of fetus and mother—even with triplets
- Basic and advanced fetal trace alerting, making you immediately aware of critical events
- Centralized, electronic patient record for mother, fetus and newborn.
- Interfacing to the Hospital ADT System to improve efficiency and help reduce errors
- Integration with MS Domain infrastructure including user authentication via Microsoft Active Directory services.
- Interfaces to third party charting solutions for automatic data transfer.
- Displays OB TraceVue alerts even when other clinical applications are in use—no dedicated PC required
- Intuitive user interface saves time in training and daily use
- Remote trace upload from Avalon FM20, Avalon FM30, and FM-2 antepartum fetal monitors.
- Interactive remote access to closely monitor patient status when you’re away from the unit. OB TraceVue is Web enabled.
Patient-focused surveillance and on-line documentation
OB TraceVue provides a complete clinical record of care for the mother and newborn. The surveillance functions present information that is transmitted from fetal and fetal/maternal monitors and generate alerts for critical events. Philips worked with the Department of Obstetrics and the Laboratory of Computer Science of the Massachusetts General Hospital,* incorporating their knowledge, expertise, and years of experience into the development of OB TraceVue.
OB TraceVue can be accessed wherever patient information is needed – from patient bedside and delivery room, central station, nurse lounge, and physician’s home or office. Easy access to well-organized information improves efficiency, allowing you to focus more attention on patients and achieve the best quality of care. Optical storage media can store data for up to 30 years according to the accelerated lifetime tests of the media manufacturer.
Alerting and storage
Philips fetal and maternal monitors, cordless transducers, and departmental information system span the obstetrical care continuum. Our technologies are designed to contribute to improved staff efficiency and support the patient environment.
Modular design for flexibility and efficiency
The system is highly scalable. It can be configured as simple non-stress test (NST) system, as centralized departmental surveillance solution and as a complete departmental point-of -care surveillance and charting solution that allows fetal, maternal, and newborn charting at every bedside.
Interfacing
- HL7-based ADT link allows demographic data to be downloaded from the HIS and can report transfers and discharges to the HIS.
- OB TraceVue can be fully integrated into the hospital MS Domain infrastructure including user authentication via Microsoft Active Directory services
- HL7 export can send a configurable set of flowsheet data including vital signs, derived fetal heart rate parameters, alerts and notes to third-party charting systems.
Remote access
An authorized care provider can gain read/write access to OB TraceVue from any PC on the hospital LAN (OB department or physician’s office) or remotely via secure connection from home.
Runs alongside other applications
OB TraceVue runs alongside third-party applications and can be minimized to an icon while users work with other applications. The icon, which is always visible, registers alert situations, and provides charting reminders for time sensitive tasks.
High-Availability
The OB TraceVue high-availability option is based on a hot standby server that takes over data collection, surveillance, alerting and charting in the case the primary server becomes unavailable.
Patient confidentiality and data security
OB TraceVue helps your hospital comply with confidentiality and security regulations through many built-in features including:
- User and data authentication.
- User authentication via Microsoft® Active Directory service.
- Audit trails that track which patient records were accessed and by whom. They also track all clinical configuration changes.
- Physical security and disaster recovery.
- Creation of patient aliases.
- Routine reporting
* A Harvard Medical School affiliated hospital.
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