In today's fast-paced healthcare environment, managing a wide variety of networked assets efficiently with minimal interruptions helping to enable patient care is crucial. However, managing numerous devices and network infrastructures can be complex, inefficient, and potentially disruptive to the patient care experience. Hospitals need to ensure their equipment is ready to go, so they can focus on what matters most: patient care.
As healthcare systems face staffing challenges, more complex patient cases and try to minimize alarm fatigue, care teams are looking for ways to simplify workflows and spend less time managing devices. Fleet management solutions help healthcare systems know where their devices are, how they’re being used, and if there are potential security vulnerabilities – helping to reduce device downtime and helping to enable uninterrupted patient care.
This comes to life in Baptist Hospital’s new campus in Pensacola, Florida.
Streamlining fleet management and helping to minimize disruptions to patient care
The global healthcare IT market is projected to grow from $420 billion in 2024 to over $834 billion by 2029, with an annual growth rate of 15%.[1] This growth is driven by the increasing adoption of digital health solutions and the desire to enhance quality care.
Baptist Health Care implemented GE HealthCare's ReadySee™ platform at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, which offers a new way to manage biomedical devices. ReadySee is a scalable platform designed to provide insights into biomedical device inventory, behaviors, and potential cybersecurity risks, while automatically monitoring device integration and infrastructure. This comprehensive solution helps biomedical engineers prioritize and proactively manage their device networks, helping to reduce the risk of downtime.
"If a patient is admitted, my team can see the admittance, which is critical when planning out preventative maintenance and preparing for any network errors that may occur,” said Tony Williams, Director of Biomedical Engineering at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola.
By offering greater device visibility and comprehensive monitoring, ReadySee allows biomedical engineers to help ensure equipment is ready to go with less time searching for and troubleshooting devices so clinicians can spend more time on patient care. ReadySee is a part of GE HealthCare’s growing portfolio of DeviceReady™ remote fleet management solutions, helping biomedical engineers navigate dynamic patient needs.
“Our job has become easier with ReadySee. It will let me know if a monitor is having a problem before the clinician calls me, because I can get the alert well before someone notices it on the patient end,” added Williams.
Continuous patient monitoring can help optimize precision care
Continuous monitoring and access to real-time data throughout a patient’s journey is helpful in identifying patient deterioration early for timely intervention. ReadySee plays an important role in helping to ensure that monitoring technology is working properly.
According to GE HealthCare’s The State of Flexible HealthCare Delivery survey, respondents said expanding the use of continuous monitoring technologies would help identify deterioration earlier (74%), reduce reliance on telemetry beds (52%), and reduce length of stay (52%).
To simplify device integration across its system, Baptist Hospital installed GE HealthCare’s CARESCAPE Canvas™ monitoring platform, including CARESCAPE™ ONE. CARESCAPE solutions offer one standard interface to simplify clinician workflows. It is simple to add or remove clinical parameters as the platform is designed to scale up or down depending on a patient’s level of acuity, providing clinicians with information they need, when they need it. The platform includes backwards and forwards capabilities for seamless integration with existing technology and forward-looking features enabling care transformation into the future.
"One really nice thing is that CARESCAPE monitors allow patients to go from one place in the hospital to another. If the patient is in critical care and they need to go to CT, they continue to be monitored with the same system,” emphasized Joyce Nichols, VP and Chief Nursing Officer at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola.
The CARESCAPE Canvas platform is designed to adapt to virtually any patient level of acuity, helping clinicians deliver consistent quality care across beds and units for continuous monitoring.
"The importance of scaling up and down with the CARESCAPE monitors is vital because I can manage my patients regardless of acuity,” highlighted Williams.
Integrated technology systems can pave the way for improved efficiency and seamless patient care
ReadySee and CARESCAPE Canvas integrate seamlessly to provide a comprehensive solution for healthcare facilities. ReadySee shows devices and traffic on the CARESCAPE network, allowing customers to locate and get insights into the patient data modules and parameter modules connected to CARESCAPE patient monitors without interrupting patient care. This integration helps maximize network performance.
This proactive approach to fleet management and continuous patient monitoring can help support precision care and enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery. Baptist Hospital's new campus in Pensacola also utilizes GE HealthCare’s digital centralized monitoring unit, maternal infant care, diagnostic cardiology, imaging and ultrasound solutions as well as technology service.
At Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, the integration of ReadySee and CARESCAPE solutions can make a meaningful difference in the lives of clinicians and patients. Williams highlights, “I get really excited when the decisions that we made as a group and the technology we sourced have positive impacts on patients.”
Learn more about ReadySee and CARESCAPE Canvas.
[1] Research and Markets. (2024). Healthcare IT Market Report 2024 - The Rise of Telehealth Solutions as a Market Driver. Retrieved from https://www.researchandmarkets.com/report/health-it
