Innovative Information Center Streamlines and Optimizes Patient Monitoring

A novel patient platform provides consolidated views and clinical decision support (CSD) tools to help clinicians monitor patients’ status and conditions.

The IntelliVue Information Center iX (PIIC iX) is a patient monitoring platform designed to meet the demands of the complex hospital environment, advancing hospital mobility and workflow efforts by offering the ability to remotely view trends via web or iPad, thus enabling physicians to stay abreast of patients’ conditions from remote locations. The solution also provides actionable insights, which can lead to streamlined-clinical workflow and enhanced patient care, while supporting information technology (IT) standards.


PIIC iX specifically focuses on helping health care professionals make more rapid, well-informed decisions, such as facilitating early identification and treatment of ST elevated myocardial infarct (STEMI) using the STEMI Limit Map that helps clinicians to quickly detect at risk patients and is consistent with American Heart Association’s (AHA) recommendations for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS).

The Alarm Audit Log enables hospitals to analyze alarm data in order to optimize alarm limits and reduce clinically nonactionable alarms. An Alarm Assessment and Evaluation consulting service is also available to review and address nursing workflow in order to optimize the implementation of new systems in the most productive way possible, providing a total solutions approach in aiding hospitals as they address the issue of alarm fatigue by supporting hospital research on alarm management and sentinel events. The PIIC iX is a product of Philips Healthcare (Best, The Netherlands).

“PIIC iX brings together data from various IntelliVue patient monitors and devices into streamlined clinical views, delivering more information in a more intuitive way where and when the clinician needs it,” said Lori Lazzara, general manager of patient monitoring systems for Philips Healthcare. “The result is simplified clinical workflows which can help optimize scarce resources in challenging processes such as patient transport.”

The PIIC iX solution meets hospital IT demands for secure, standards-based, interoperable technology that easily integrates into its existing IT infrastructure, while interfacing with electronic medical records (EMRs). The solution enables hospitals to leverage existing hardware and networking investments. The PIIC iX server can interoperate with a virtual infrastructure and has met VMware integration and interoperability standards, helping IT departments maintain high availability, reduce clinical downtime, and control costs.

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