Integrated Medical Systems, Inc.
Integrated patient care platforms can save lives and save money by enabling earlier, continuous and flexible hospital-grade care to critical care patients.
Situation
100,000 Americans die every year from traumatic injury. 400,000 are permanently disabled. 11 million are temporarily disabled. 50% of those trauma patients who die, die before they reach a hospital. The remaining 50% die in the hospital. Those who survive face a life plagued by disability. This death and disability is due, in large part, from lack of adequate and/or timely information and intervention. Lost productivity and hospitalisations due to injury cost this nation $260 billion. This situation is compounded by on-going closure of trauma centers around the country, and the need to provide increased pre-hospital care and in-hospital surge capacity as a transformed public health response to frequent overcrowding, as well as to natural or man-made mass disasters occurring once every eight minutes somewhere in the world.
Solution
Provide early, continuous and flexible hospital-grade care, from site of injury, during transport and through definitive care, via the LSTAT patient care platform.
The LSTAT patient care platform is an individualized, portable, networked intensive care unit (ICU) and surgical table only five inches thick. Integrated within the LSTAT platform are a state-of-the-art defibrillator, ventilator, suction, three-channel fluid and drug infusion pump, point-of-care blood chemistry analyser, and patient monitoring subsystems. The platform also incorporates on-board power and oxygen subsystems. The medical subsystems are further integrated onto a common information architecture that captures, stores, and transmits continuous, real-time, multi-device, multi-parameter, time-synchronized patient data. Patient data is available at bedside on a handheld Secondary Display (with optional wireless capability), over a hospital’s clinical information system, and over the Internet through secure web sites that protect patient privacy. Information about the platform itself (battery status, oxygen supply, device health, etc.) is similarly available. The architecture also enables web-based remote technical analysis and support of the devices aboard the LSTAT platform, as well as e-commerce applications for re-supply of disposable medical supplies.
The LSTAT platform is designed to survive and operate successfully in adverse vibration, shock, pressure, humidity, temperature, weather, and electromagnetic environments. The product has the ability to operate in land, air, and sea vehicles, as well as in urban and rural facility environments such as hospitals, clinics, and deployable medical facilities at natural or man-made disaster sites.
Better Health & Lower Costs
By providing early, continuous and flexible care, use of the LSTAT patient care platform can reduce mortality, morbidity, survivor length-of-stay (LOS), caregiver time, and resource consumption. The data system aboard the LSTAT platform supports timely, accurate and complete records for reimbursement. Because it is an integrated suite of medical and data devices, there are over 50 reimbursement codes associated with just the LSTAT itself.
The LSTAT platform is the only integrated suite of its kind ever cleared by the U.S. FDA. Yet, the LSTAT platform costs only about one-third the cost of installing a single-patient ICU station, and can be leased for the same rate as a hospital bed that doesn’t provide any medical or data capabilities. And, at an average hospital cost of $6,000 per day to care for a trauma patient, reducing the LOS by just one day translates to significant annual savings – and this is only one of the clinical and economic benefits of the LSTAT patient care platform.
