MedStar, a 10-hospital group that’s the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and Washington, D.C., has adopted AirStrip’s labor monitoring platform as part of an expansion of a collaboration started earlier this year.
With cases of hypertension, obesity and Type 2 diabetes rising, it has increased the risk factors posed for mothers and their unborn children. That’s amplified the need for physicians to have a way to more closely monitor vital signs for mothers and the fetus in the days and weeks leading up to delivery.
AiStrip has been ramping up the capabilities of a remote monitoring tool to improve the tracking of high-risk pregnancies. It has worked with New Jersey-based PeriGen, to integrate the company’s clinical decision support technology and assess and interpret fetal heart rate patterns.
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The agreement with MedStar is part of a broader collaboration for the AirStrip Innovative Marketplace program that came about earlier this year. The program is a collaboration between the company and healthcare providers and other institutions to speed up the implementation of scientific discoveries and innovation into clinical practice, and helps providers create new revenue models. As part of AIM, MedStar and AirStrip are integrating an enhanced cardiac diagnostic visualization MedStar developed.
Earlier this month, Dignity Health said it would use the AirStrip ONE platform to integrate electronic medical records and inpatient data into a single application to make it easier to focus on patients with chronic conditions, for example.
Dignity Health, which has a 20-state network of hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging centers, home health and primary care clinics, is also an AirStrip investor. Next month, Dignity is also using AirStrip’s technology to support telestroke and teleICU across four healthcare facilities in and around Sacramento.