SDW news brief: How mobile apps improve quality of care
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, March 11, 2011
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A subtle but significant sign that mobile apps to improve quality of care have come of age appeared when Apple launched its "iPad is Amazing" TV commercial in the fall of 2010.
For just a second, obstetrics doctors and nurses would recognize the streaming waves undulating across the tablet as those from a fetal heart rate monitor at a patient's bedside. With this app, AirStrip Remote Patient Monitoring, providers can view these waves from wherever they happen to be-while treating another patient or attending a soccer game. With mobile access on the iPad™ or iPhone™, or any mobile device, they can see trouble as it starts, both historic and in real time.
The developer, AirStrip Technologies, decided to classify the software as a medical device, similar to a pacemaker, hearing implant, or imaging test. In so doing, it subjected the technology to review for safety and efficacy by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.The company decided that its software did not just send information from one source to another, like calling up the Stedman's Medical Dictionary online.
Rather, because AirStrip renders a visual interpretation of that wave-form data "and makes sure that we're maintaining the proper mathematical ratios and graphically plotting that out in a way that's accurate and reliable, that makes it a medical device" says Bruce Brandes, AirStrip's chief sales officer.
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Source: HealthLeaders Media
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