AirStrip OB Users Profiled
January 31st, 2007 | Published in Company Profiles, Patient Flow
GE Healthcare introduced AirStrip OB, their wireless fetal monitoring surveillance product at HIMSS 2006 in San Diego. Here's a story about the system and some early users in the San Antonio Express News. The 510(k) approved system transmits near real-time waveforms from GE fetal monitors for obstetrician's to use in diagnosis and treatment decisions during labor. The system took 2 years to develop by software vendor MP4, and is sold by GE exclusively into the labor and delivery market.
The first “Our chairman saw a demo It She
AirStrip OB will be in eight hospitals and used by 191 doctors by And GE is marketing to
facility in the country to install AirStrip was Fairview Hospital, part
of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
and said, 'We have to have it,'” said Terry McDaniel, system
administrator for CentriCity Perinatal at Fairview.
launched in September with 10 doctors. Through word of mouth, two or
three more ask to be added each month, McDaniel said.
said some of the doctors are heavy users of the new technology for
everything from looking at readings that an on-site nurse may find
troubling to viewing test results immediately.
February, and MP4 executives expect usage to grow quickly. It has just
been approved by hospital giant HCA Corp. for installation in any of
their 200 hospitals that want it.
the 1,500 hospitals around the country that already have GE labor and
delivery monitoring equipment compatible with AirStrip.
It costs about $60,000 for a hospital to install the software that lets
GE Healthcare's obstetrics monitoring equipment in the hospital
communicate with the doctors' hand-held devices. Physicians then pay an
annual subscription fee of $299.
Pictured right is fetal monitoring data being streamed to a Nokia smartphone via AirStrip at HIMSS 2006.
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