Critical Alert Systems Launches Enterprise Nurse Call Platform CommonPath with Cross-System and Remote Management Capabilities

From February 11 to 15, the 2019 HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as HIMSS19) was held in Orlando, Florida, USA. As one of the most influential large-scale exhibitions in the healthcare information technology industry worldwide, it attracted 45,000 attendees, including healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, healthcare administrators, government policymakers, and corporate representatives from more than 90 countries around the globe.

During HIMSS19, medical technology company Critical Alert Systems launched CommonPath, an enterprise-grade nurse call system.

Critical Alert Systems is a U.S.-based medical technology company dedicated to providing flexible, highly reliable, and secure patient communication and nurse call systems for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Through software-driven solutions, clinical workflow expertise, hardware products, and offerings from integration partners, the company helps hospitals enhance patient satisfaction, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce costs.

The newly launched enterprise-grade nurse call system, CommonPath, is an innovative software application. This software integrates critical patient information, clinical workflows, real-time patient location, device components, and monitoring reports into a single-source solution via cloud computing. Scalable, highly flexible, and compatible, the system is suitable for healthcare organizations of any size and enables centralized configuration and management of nursing staff through a single data center.

Critical Alert Systems states that CommonPath can help users save resources, manpower, and physical space. Users can remotely perform and manage tasks such as system upgrades, updates, backups, redundancy removal, and maintenance. Likewise, enterprises can remotely manage messaging rules and protocols, personnel assignments, escalation paths, and workflows.

The system’s integrated multi-site data analytics capability enables multidimensional comparative analysis across multiple units, hospitals, and healthcare systems. Nursing administrators can also leverage this system to manage and evaluate individual and team performance, standardize workflows, monitor and measure continuous improvement processes, and assess system performance.

At the same time, during this exhibition, Critical Alert Systems also announced a partnership with US medical technology company Bernoulli Health to jointly provide leading clinical monitoring and alarm systems for hospitals.

Bernoulli Health specializes in providing solutions for real-time clinical monitoring, advanced analytics, and intelligent alert notifications. Its flagship product, the Bernoulli One™ connected healthcare platform, is currently the only real-time, end-to-end connected healthcare platform on the market. It collects, aggregates, and distributes patient-generated data (including alerts and waveforms) from various medical devices in real time, along with retrospective data from enterprise electronic health records. This enables clinical teams to perform timely early interventions, reduce medical risks, and safeguard patients.

Today, hospitals and healthcare systems face increasing regulatory pressure to reduce the high incidence of preventable hospital-acquired conditions, such as opioid-induced respiratory depression (OIRD) and sepsis. Current monitoring practices, such as intermittent vital signs checks, fail to accurately reflect and analyze trends in patient condition evolution.

According to a recent report released by the healthcare IT data firm KLAS, “clinical monitoring tools are poised to provide caregivers with clinically actionable insights, reduce mortality rates, decrease readmission rates, and effectively improve patient outcomes overall.”

Integrating Critical Alert Systems’ nurse call system with Bernoulli Health’s clinical monitoring tools will provide clinical teams with real-time, actionable insights, supporting better clinical decision-making, reducing alarm response times, and enhancing patient safety and satisfaction.

(Compiled by Cheng Xiaoqin)