Axis Communications Case Studies Giving pediatric patients a lot of extra TLC

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Giving pediatric patients a lot of extra TLC

Axis Communications

Technology Category	Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Use Cases	Structural Health Monitoring
Challenge	The hospital wanted to install video cameras in each room so that paramedics remotely monitoring patient vitals could also visually see if the child was in distress and call for immediate medical attention. Read More
About Customer	Nemours Children’s is one of the largest integrated pediatric health systems in the country. Everything we do — our medical care, research, education, and prevention and advocacy efforts — is focused on kids. Read More
Customer Name	Nemours Children’s Hospital Read More
Solution	Nemours created a Tactical Logistics Center (TLC) – also known as the Clinical Logistics Center – where a rotating team of paramedics continually checks patient vital signs through a central monitoring system. In addition to the clinical data, the TLC integrates live streaming video from Axis network cameras in each patient’s room through Epic software. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Use Cases

Structural Health Monitoring

Challenge

The hospital wanted to install video cameras in each room so that paramedics remotely monitoring patient vitals could also visually see if the child was in distress and call for immediate medical attention.

About Customer

Nemours Children’s is one of the largest integrated pediatric health systems in the country. Everything we do — our medical care, research, education, and prevention and advocacy efforts — is focused on kids.

Customer Name

Nemours Children’s Hospital

Solution

Nemours created a Tactical Logistics Center (TLC) – also known as the Clinical Logistics Center – where a rotating team of paramedics continually checks patient vital signs through a central monitoring system.

In addition to the clinical data, the TLC integrates live streaming video from Axis network cameras in each patient’s room through Epic software.

Impact #1	[Management Effectiveness - Real Time Information] Designed with wide dynamic range for great forensic detail in both bright and poor light conditions, the Axis cameras help paramedics detect small changes in a patient’s health, sometimes even before vital signs indicate that there is a problem.
Impact #2	[Efficiency Improvement - Issue Response] With the addition of Axis cameras in every patient room tied into the monitoring system, paramedics would serve as additional eyes and ears for the nurses, doctors and parents.

Impact #1

[Management Effectiveness - Real Time Information]

Designed with wide dynamic range for great forensic detail in both bright and poor light conditions, the Axis cameras help paramedics detect small changes in a patient’s health, sometimes even before vital signs indicate that there is a problem.

Impact #2

[Efficiency Improvement - Issue Response]

With the addition of Axis cameras in every patient room tied into the monitoring system, paramedics would serve as additional eyes and ears for the nurses, doctors and parents.

Benefit #1	Paramedics at the TLC use the Axis cameras to monitor over 100 in-patients in the hospital’s Orlando location as well as over 150 beds in its sister hospital, Nemours/ Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Benefit #1

Paramedics at the TLC use the Axis cameras to monitor over 100 in-patients in the hospital’s Orlando location as well as over 150 beds in its sister hospital, Nemours/ Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Giving pediatric patients a lot of extra TLC

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