Portrait Mobile enables real-time continuous monitoring with a personalized view of a patient’s vitals. It also keeps patients mobile during critical recovery periods, including after surgery or ICU discharge.
According to GE HealthCare, continuous monitoring and real-time data viewing can help clinicians recognize deterioration earlier than traditional spot-check methods. Those checks only occur about every 4-6 hours. Wireless, patient-worn sensors, combined with the smartphone-sized monitor, eliminate all traditional tethers. GE HealthCare says this enables patients to move freely around the ward, helping to improve outcomes and reduce the length of stay.
Portrait Mobile aims to modernize respiration rate measurement with GE HealthCare’s novel, wireless sensor technology. It features dual-vector respiration rate measurement technology that leverages an algorithm designed for mobile patients. This better captures continuous respiratory rate through optimized electrode placement even with changing breathing patterns.
Dr. Daniel Sessler of the Cleveland Clinic said the continuous monitoring can enable clinicians to provide help quickly to deteriorating patients. Sessler serve as the principal investigator of a joint trial currently evaluating Portrait Mobile.
“It’s important for recovery that patients be able to move around freely while their vital signs are being monitored,” said Neal Sandy, GM, monitoring solutions, GE HealthCare. “Until Portrait Mobile, patient monitoring required that patients be tethered to their beds, limiting mobility. GE HealthCare designed Portrait Mobile with this need in mind — the advent of a small wearable, wireless inpatient monitoring solution that provides reliable monitoring to the patient’s care team while allowing for more patient freedom and flexibility during recovery, is an important advancement in acute care.”
