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St. Luke’s adds telehealth system to remotely monitor COVID-19 patients
Dawn Ouellette Nixon//April 7, 2020
St. Luke’s adds telehealth system to remotely monitor COVID-19 patients
Dawn Ouellette Nixon//April 7, 2020//
St. Luke’s University Health Network is using a new cloud-based telehealth platform to remotely monitor COVID-19 patients. The platform, called Masimo SafetyNet, uses wearable single-use sensors to keep track of patients’ symptoms.
“This technology is game-changing in light of the crush of demand on our hospitals during this COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Aldo Carmona, vice president of clinical innovation for St. Luke’s.
The platform tracks oxygen levels in the blood and respiration rates of patients who are hospitalized or quarantined at home, then makes the data available from a patient’s smartphone or smart device.
According to St. Luke’s, tracking a patient’s physiological data remotely can help clinicians make life-saving treatment decisions quickly.
St. Luke’s expects to monitor roughly 2,000 patients with the new device. These may also include staff and patients who are quarantined at home with the virus.
