Status Solutions and Stryker to Integrate Wireless Smart Bed Information
Status Solutions has recently entered into a partnership with Stryker, initiating integration discussions between both organizations’ product management and development teams. Stryker and Status Solutions are in the process of defining and developing an integration to drive alerts from Stryker’s smart bed wireless system to SARA’s robust alerting engine.
Charlottesville, VA, February 24, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Status Solutions, provider of the Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA), announces a strategic partnership with Stryker, a leading manufacturer of medical patient handling equipment for hospitals, emergency and rescue operations.
Status Solutions has recently entered into a partnership with Stryker, initiating integration discussions between both organizations’ product management and development teams. Stryker and Status Solutions are in the process of defining and developing an integration to drive alerts from Stryker’s smart bed wireless system to SARA’s robust alerting engine.
As part of Stryker’s focus on prevention, Stryker launched the industry’s next generation of connectivity with the first FDA-cleared(1) wireless hospital beds to improve care efficiencies and help prevent adverse events. This is accomplished by providing better bedside data and greater flexibility. In addition, Stryker’s open architecture approach reduces customers’ total cost of ownership and provides the freedom to build a custom solution by allowing caregivers to select the right surface for the right patient.
Stryker’s exclusive iBed Awareness smart bed monitor provides an enhanced level of monitoring to help prevent patient falls and notify caregivers of overdue workflow activities. iBed Awareness lets caregivers select a specific bed configuration for a particular patient, then notifies the caregiver if the bed configuration changes via visual or optional audible alerts, and through nurse call systems. These alerts, as well as data from Protocol Reminders™, an exclusive feature on the InTouch® Critical Care bed, are designed to help organize and promote compliance with proven best practices.
SARA integrates to multiple systems to provide enhanced alerting and reporting. Systems can include nurse call, patient monitoring, fire panels, infant abduction, etc. SARA also improves operations by providing two-way patient / nurse communication, broadcasting emergency codes, environmental monitoring via sensors (i.e. labs, server rooms, restrooms, pharmacies), asset tracking and monitoring of patient devices. Innovative alerting solutions can improve operations and level of care.
“An integrated solution including the Stryker smart bed and the SARA alerting engine provides a tremendous benefit to acute care facilities. The true benefit is situational awareness – knowing what is going on when you are not there to see it. This solution will help to reduce the risk of caregiver injury, while at the same time improve patient outcomes. We are in the business of helping people, and we feel that this solution will continue to allow us to do that in acute care facilities,” states Mike MacLeod, Status Solutions Co-Founder.
“Status Solutions and SARA provide an attractive smart bed integration option for customers. The combination of wireless smart bed information and a strong alerting engine will help enable caregivers to remotely monitor and be alerted about key information,” said Rich Mayoras, Senior Group Marketing Manager for Stryker. “Stryker’s iBed platform and the introduction of the industry’s first wireless smart beds enable the next generation of smart bed connectivity to provide valuable, real-time information that clinicians need. With Status Solutions and SARA, caregivers can get that information where and when they need it to make the most use of it.”
Status Solutions is exhibiting at this week’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition in Orlando, FL. You can visit them on the tradeshow floor of the Orange County Convention Center in booth 2133.
About Status Solutions and SARA:
Status Solutions provides situational awareness solutions with expertise in vertical markets such as senior housing, healthcare, education, manufacturing and government. The Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA) is an automated alerting system and awareness engine that sends voice and text alerts via phone, email, etc. SARA provides a wireless sensor network, integration tools (to existing systems and devices) and broadcast communication in a single solution.
This rich set of capabilities resides on a single technology platform, allowing facilities to utilize one system to turn all of your alarms into managed alerts and seamlessly provide Life Safety Assurance, Security Monitoring, Environmental Awareness and Mass Notification.
With a combination of skills in computer telephony integration, as well as practical experience in the delivery of monitoring and notification tools, Status Solutions is a focused growing company, with customer satisfaction as their top priority.
The mission is to keep people informed. With innovative alerting solutions delivered by SARA, you can be aware of any situation occurring in your facility. Because right now matters most.
To learn how SARA can work for you, visit our website at www.statussolutions.com.
Status Solutions
1180 Seminole Trail, Suite 440
Charlottesville, VA 22901
(434) 296-1789
About Stryker’s iBed and Connected Hospital
Stryker’s Connected Hospital® and iBed platform involve a combination of communication, networking, and information management with an open-architecture strategy. This provides maximum flexibility for a best-in-class system with a lower total cost of ownership. This platform enables customers to better utilize smart beds as part of their care system both at the bedside and remotely to facilitate significant improvements in the cost and quality of patient care. It also allows customers to maximize their current IT infrastructure investments.
About Stryker’s Medical Division:
The Medical division of Stryker Corporation designs, manufactures, sells and services specialty patient care & handling equipment for the acute care hospital market. Stryker’s innovative and easy-to-use products include critical care, med/surg and maternity beds; therapeutic and pulmonary support surfaces; mobility and procedural stretchers; and patient room furniture, as well as ambulance cots, stair and evacuation chairs for the emergency medical services industry. Stryker’s Medical division is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies with the most broadly based range of products in orthopedics and a significant presence in other medical specialties. Stryker works with respected medical professionals to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives and to reduce healthcare costs. The Company's products include implants used in joint replacement, trauma, craniomaxillofacial and spinal surgeries; surgical, neurologic, and ear, nose & throat equipment; endoscopic, surgical navigation, and communications systems; as well as patient handling and emergency medical equipment. The Company's web site address is www.stryker.com.
(1)According to an FDE Premarket Notification database search from January 1, 1975 to February 1, 2011, there are no other approvals listed for the specific indication listed K103536 under product code FNL, as of February 1, 2011.
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Status Solutions has recently entered into a partnership with Stryker, initiating integration discussions between both organizations’ product management and development teams. Stryker and Status Solutions are in the process of defining and developing an integration to drive alerts from Stryker’s smart bed wireless system to SARA’s robust alerting engine.
As part of Stryker’s focus on prevention, Stryker launched the industry’s next generation of connectivity with the first FDA-cleared(1) wireless hospital beds to improve care efficiencies and help prevent adverse events. This is accomplished by providing better bedside data and greater flexibility. In addition, Stryker’s open architecture approach reduces customers’ total cost of ownership and provides the freedom to build a custom solution by allowing caregivers to select the right surface for the right patient.
Stryker’s exclusive iBed Awareness smart bed monitor provides an enhanced level of monitoring to help prevent patient falls and notify caregivers of overdue workflow activities. iBed Awareness lets caregivers select a specific bed configuration for a particular patient, then notifies the caregiver if the bed configuration changes via visual or optional audible alerts, and through nurse call systems. These alerts, as well as data from Protocol Reminders™, an exclusive feature on the InTouch® Critical Care bed, are designed to help organize and promote compliance with proven best practices.
SARA integrates to multiple systems to provide enhanced alerting and reporting. Systems can include nurse call, patient monitoring, fire panels, infant abduction, etc. SARA also improves operations by providing two-way patient / nurse communication, broadcasting emergency codes, environmental monitoring via sensors (i.e. labs, server rooms, restrooms, pharmacies), asset tracking and monitoring of patient devices. Innovative alerting solutions can improve operations and level of care.
“An integrated solution including the Stryker smart bed and the SARA alerting engine provides a tremendous benefit to acute care facilities. The true benefit is situational awareness – knowing what is going on when you are not there to see it. This solution will help to reduce the risk of caregiver injury, while at the same time improve patient outcomes. We are in the business of helping people, and we feel that this solution will continue to allow us to do that in acute care facilities,” states Mike MacLeod, Status Solutions Co-Founder.
“Status Solutions and SARA provide an attractive smart bed integration option for customers. The combination of wireless smart bed information and a strong alerting engine will help enable caregivers to remotely monitor and be alerted about key information,” said Rich Mayoras, Senior Group Marketing Manager for Stryker. “Stryker’s iBed platform and the introduction of the industry’s first wireless smart beds enable the next generation of smart bed connectivity to provide valuable, real-time information that clinicians need. With Status Solutions and SARA, caregivers can get that information where and when they need it to make the most use of it.”
Status Solutions is exhibiting at this week’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition in Orlando, FL. You can visit them on the tradeshow floor of the Orange County Convention Center in booth 2133.
About Status Solutions and SARA:
Status Solutions provides situational awareness solutions with expertise in vertical markets such as senior housing, healthcare, education, manufacturing and government. The Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA) is an automated alerting system and awareness engine that sends voice and text alerts via phone, email, etc. SARA provides a wireless sensor network, integration tools (to existing systems and devices) and broadcast communication in a single solution.
This rich set of capabilities resides on a single technology platform, allowing facilities to utilize one system to turn all of your alarms into managed alerts and seamlessly provide Life Safety Assurance, Security Monitoring, Environmental Awareness and Mass Notification.
With a combination of skills in computer telephony integration, as well as practical experience in the delivery of monitoring and notification tools, Status Solutions is a focused growing company, with customer satisfaction as their top priority.
The mission is to keep people informed. With innovative alerting solutions delivered by SARA, you can be aware of any situation occurring in your facility. Because right now matters most.
To learn how SARA can work for you, visit our website at www.statussolutions.com.
Status Solutions
1180 Seminole Trail, Suite 440
Charlottesville, VA 22901
(434) 296-1789
About Stryker’s iBed and Connected Hospital
Stryker’s Connected Hospital® and iBed platform involve a combination of communication, networking, and information management with an open-architecture strategy. This provides maximum flexibility for a best-in-class system with a lower total cost of ownership. This platform enables customers to better utilize smart beds as part of their care system both at the bedside and remotely to facilitate significant improvements in the cost and quality of patient care. It also allows customers to maximize their current IT infrastructure investments.
About Stryker’s Medical Division:
The Medical division of Stryker Corporation designs, manufactures, sells and services specialty patient care & handling equipment for the acute care hospital market. Stryker’s innovative and easy-to-use products include critical care, med/surg and maternity beds; therapeutic and pulmonary support surfaces; mobility and procedural stretchers; and patient room furniture, as well as ambulance cots, stair and evacuation chairs for the emergency medical services industry. Stryker’s Medical division is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies with the most broadly based range of products in orthopedics and a significant presence in other medical specialties. Stryker works with respected medical professionals to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives and to reduce healthcare costs. The Company's products include implants used in joint replacement, trauma, craniomaxillofacial and spinal surgeries; surgical, neurologic, and ear, nose & throat equipment; endoscopic, surgical navigation, and communications systems; as well as patient handling and emergency medical equipment. The Company's web site address is www.stryker.com.
(1)According to an FDE Premarket Notification database search from January 1, 1975 to February 1, 2011, there are no other approvals listed for the specific indication listed K103536 under product code FNL, as of February 1, 2011.
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