Sotera® Wireless to Highlight Company's Advancement in Surveillance Monitoring

SAN DIEGO, June 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Sotera^® Wireless today announced that James Welch, Executive Vice President Product Development and a pioneer in the development of disruptive patient monitoring systems, will lead an educational session at the upcoming Association for the Advancement of Medical Innovation (AAMI) 2015 conference in Denver. The session "It's Not About Alarms… Lessons Learned in Improving Patient Safety" is an open-invite breakfast symposium on June 8 at 7:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

Welch intends to highlight what Sotera Wireless has learned through analysis of more than 250,000 hours of multi-parameter continuous surveillance vital signs monitoring data from general care floors and how it is being used to improve patient safety. He will also share details regarding the newly developed cloud-hosted tool to optimize alarm configurations, which aid in reducing alarm fatigue. Mr. Welch will propose a standardized configuration for surveillance monitoring alarm settings and a national performance benchmark based on actual general care floor patient data.

Although alarm fatigue is still a major industry focus, Sotera Wireless is changing the alarm conversation. "No other company that we are aware of has established a multi-parameter national benchmark for alarm performance," according to Welch. "The data itself is important, but it is what hospitals do with the data that really counts when it comes to patient safety. Our goal at Sotera Wireless is to help clinicians identify early signs of patient deterioration and reduce failure to rescue events. Patients and clinicians on the general care floor are experiencing the benefits of continuous surveillance monitoring with the ViSi Mobile System every day."

"The ability to use 'big data' to manage alarm behavior represents a paradigm shift in our approach, and introduces a new era in patient safety," according to Dr. Ben Kanter, Chief Medical Officer at Sotera Wireless.

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About Sotera Wireless
Sotera Wireless, Inc. is a San Diego based medical device company dedicated to the development, marketing and sale of a new generation of comprehensive vital signs monitoring. Sotera's mission is to improve patient safety by empowering clinicians to detect early signs of deterioration in virtually any care setting and enable early intervention and rapid response, all without limiting the patient's freedom of movement. More information on the company, its ViSi Mobile System and continuous surveillance monitoring can be obtained at soterawireless.com or by sending an email to [email protected]

Sotera^® and ViSi Mobile^® are registered trademarks of Sotera Wireless, Inc. 

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