The AcuityLink Clinician Notifier is a hand-held patient monitoring system that delivers real-time and historic waveforms, numerics and alarm information directly to caregivers via a wireless PDA device regardless of their location, giving providers vital information to make immediate decisions about their patients’ needs.
Healthcare providers often feel like they need to be in two places at once in order to do their jobs effectively, said Grant Gibson, group product director, Welch Allyn Monitoring. The AcuityLink Clinician Notifier puts the power of central monitoring directly into the nurses’ hands. By seamlessly integrating into an existing hospital network, it lets providers monitor multiple patients from anywhere their job takes them – giving them more visibility to their patients and, most importantly, more control over their care and safety.
The AcuityLink Clinician Notifier allows clinicians to self-assign patients at the beginning of their shifts, customize the type of alarms that are transmitted to the device, and utilize a bidirectional communication system with the Welch Allyn Acuity Central Station.
The AcuityLink Clinician Notifier also has a three-tiered alarm escalation system that sends alarms to the primary caregiver and then will automatically escalate to a secondary clinician if the alarm persists and then to all clinicians on the network if necessary. It also provides audible and visual warnings if the user travels outside the wireless network coverage area, as well as distinct alarm tones for high-level and lethal arrhythmias as well as other vital sign parameter alarms.
