Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio (left), and Masimo’s HQ in Irvine, California (right).
Masimo and the Cleveland Clinic are partnering to enhance hospital-based remote patient monitoring (RPM).
The partnership will integrate Cleveland Clinic’s critical care (eHospital) and non-critical care (eCMU) central patient monitoring platforms with Masimo’s Hospital Automation platform. The goal is to provide clinicians with tools that offer situational awareness and clinical decision-support for hospitalized patients.
The collaboration will also include joint development initiatives on predictive analytics and AI-based algorithms for improving cardiac care.
How Cleveland Clinic’s central monitoring platform works
Cleveland Clinic’s existing critical care and non-critical care central monitoring platform continuously monitors several vital signs, including ECG for ICU and non-ICU patients at a more than 2,000-bed capacity.
The academic medical center’s hospital-based RPM programs serve 11 hospitals, providing care providers with intensivist monitoring, 24/7 critical care nursing, and patient management. According to the Cleveland Clinic, the programs have reduced patient mortality and ICU length of stay while also increasing caregiver satisfaction.
Masimo and Cleveland Clinic hope to bring the Clinic’s innovations and patient benefits to other healthcare systems, increase awareness and facilitate triage with more proactive responses to changes in a patient’s condition.
“We see great opportunities to enhance remote care, particularly for critically ill individuals,” said Dr. Chiedozie Udeh, Medical Director of ICU Operations at Cleveland Clinic. “By combining our technical and clinical expertise, we aim to improve situational awareness for clinicians and continue to improve outcomes for patients.”
Masimo’s platform
The Masimo Hospital Automation platform offers technologies that can help clinicians improve patient care at the bedside and across the care continuum.
It has monitoring and wearable technologies, high-fidelity medical device integration, system-wide applications for surveillance and data visualization, and novel AI capabilities that support intelligent patient prioritization. The system also helps clinicians more efficiently identify changes in patients’ conditions.
The decision support tools integrated into the Masimo Hospital Automation platform use a Halo engine, technology that simultaneously identifies deterioration patterns in multiple physiological parameters in real-time. Halo tools include Halo ION, a scalable continuous early warning score that streamlines patient assessment and clinical workflows.
As part of the partnership, the two firms want to develop an additional Halo-based decision-support tool to help clinicians detect adverse events earlier.
“We are truly honored to have the opportunity to partner with Cleveland Clinic to advance patient care. By harnessing Masimo’s AI-powered decision support tools, automation solutions, and monitoring devices, alongside Cleveland Clinic’s vast clinical expertise and dedication to providing the highest quality, most innovative care, our partnership has the potential to significantly ease staff shortages, better standardize care, and promote intensivist- and specialist-led care. Ultimately, we will make significant strides in shifting from reactive to predictive and proactive care – improving patient outcomes, safety, and quality of care across the board,” Masimo CEO Joe Kiani said.
