The HeartStart Telemedicine System helps pave the way for the next level of care for incoming cardiac, as well as other types of critical care patients, such as stroke, trauma, respiratory, and pediatric. Providing critical data ahead of patient arrival at the hospital enables better communication and collaboration with EMS, as well as better resource utilization.
In the case of 12-Lead ECG reports, the HeartStart Telemedicine System supports both EMS and hospital cardiac care teams by delivering 12-Lead ECG Reports wherever they need to go. The HeartStart Telemedicine System can be located in a hospital (where it might be shared by several facilities), or at the emergency dispatch center. Either way, you have the flexibility to define workflows around the way you work.
- Display, print, fax, email, or forward onto diagnostic cardiology databases.
- Establish multiple delivery protocols for multiple hospitals using AutoSend Lists.
- Forward 12-Leads to either TraceMasterVue or GE Muse cardiology databases (GE Muse via DataMed FT).
- There are no subscription fees or term contracts – add as many hospitals and destinations as your network requires: It’s your data.
Leverage your Telemedicine system to other critical care patients, such as stroke , trauma, pediatrics and respiratory distress, The HeartStart Telemedicine System can also display Philips Periodic Clinical Data Transmission, which periodically sends patient vitals, critical event markers and associated waveform data to the receiving hospital ahead of the patient’s arrival.
Benefits of HeartStart Telemedicine for Receiving Hospitals
- Receive advance notice of inbound critical care patients that includes legible and objective data (vs. filtered, handwritten or orally recalled data).
- Buys time to triage, make space, summon specialists (or rule out), or pull patient histories in parallel with incoming transport.
- Helps the reception team better prepare for the patient’s arrival, which may help shorten time in the ED.
- Advance objective data may result in better utilization of valuable resources in the Cath Lab, Radiology, Surgery, and ICU.
Benefits of HeartStart Telemedicine for EMS
- At his/her discretion, a medic can “set it and forget it” for automated transmission in order to focus on patient care.
- Emergency physicians can give informed clinical support to medics in the field, which may reduce unnecessary transports or help with patients refusing care.
- Sending data ahead may result in shorter hand-offs at the ED and faster return-to-service times.