Dräger's Package Enables Advanced Patient Monitoring and System Interoperability
Innovatives Patienten-Monitoring mit interoperabel vernetzter Medizintechnik
Summary
Dräger has introduced the Access and Control Package, which allows for more flexible acquisition of vital signs data—such as non-invasive/invasive blood pressure, ECG, SpO2, and CO2. This enables clinical staff to view real-time data remotely from the patient's bedside and manage alarm settings or pause alarms.
Details
This article details the implementation of Dräger’s Access and Control Package. The package processes vital signs data (including blood pressure, ECG, SpO2, CO2, etc.) acquired from portable patient monitors like the Infinity M540 using a Windows-based Core Software, making it available to healthcare professionals. This significantly improves data visualization and management in clinical settings. Technically, the system emphasizes its reliance on the ISO IEEE11073 SDC standard. SDC is highlighted as an international, vendor-neutral standard ensuring open connectivity and interoperability for medical devices. The article explains that SDC complements standards like FHIR and HL7—which facilitate data exchange between information systems—by enabling safe and reliable two-way data transmission from the physical device level to the system level. In essence, this technology is positioned as an integrated solution that achieves interoperability based on open standards both at the 'data acquisition' stage (SDC) and the 'information exchange' stage (FHIR/HL7). This enhances workflow efficiency and safety in healthcare by enabling clinical decision support beyond mere data collection.
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