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ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY

iHealth Labs Releases New VITAS Healthcare’s Interoperability

Smart Blood Pressure Monitor Solution Streamlines Hospice

Referral Process
iHealth Labs introduced the new “Clear” Smart Blood Pressure Monitor, an
intuitive smart device that empowers users to combat hypertension with simple
but smart solutions. The iHealth Clear features a large 4.7” LED display for easy On June 22, VITAS® Healthcare and Kno2™, a company that optimizes patient
and accurate blood pressure readings at home. Users can see systolic pressure, document exchange, announced their collaboration to streamline the electronic
diastolic pressure and heart rate in real time. The iHealth Clear is Bluetooth patient referral process. This two-way hospice referral system is designed to inter-
wireless, FDA approved and BHS certified for accuracy. face with hospital and health system EMR technology, increasing efficiency, reducing
Blood pressure and pulse measurements can be checked instantly, and an auto- hospice response time and eliminating the use of paper which ultimately cuts the
mated voice tells users the results in English. It provides the user with easy-to- ever-increasing costs of care delivery.
understand, color-coded results: such as green representing an optimal reading VITAS, the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care, will integrate Kno2’s inter-
to red signaling stage three hypertension. The monitor also compares the user's operability platform into its proprietary electronic health record (EHR) system to
past reading, letting users know if it is higher or lower than the user's previous support centralized and secure sharing of patient data to speed up the referral
results. iHealth Clear can store up to 2000 offline readings of memory storage process. Provided at no cost, the new technology fully satisfies many key CMS
for any BP monitor. In addition to displaying the results on the physical display, requirements and has a zero transcription error rate.
the iHealth Clear uses a WiFi connection to store data to the secure iHealth “Our goal is to innovate and accelerate how care is transitioned from hospitals to
cloud. hospice care,” said Patrick Hale, chief information officer of VITAS. “The partner-
The iHealth Clear Smart Blood Pressure Monitor connects via Bluetooth and ship with Kno2 will enable our hospice team to work quickly and more efficiently,
is designed to work with the free iHealth app, which automatically keeps a his- giving them more time to provide comfort and increasing quality of life for VITAS
tory of a person’s vital health data and allows the option to share that informa- patients and their families.”
tion with a doctor, caregiver or family member. The user can monitor blood pres- Hospitals typically send referrals to several hospice organizations simultaneously,
sure and pulse trends with intuitive charts and share data with a doctor in PDF through diverse methods, to provide patients and their families with a variety of
or spreadsheet format right from a smartphone, tablet or computer. The Clear choices that best meet their needs. Through this partnership, VITAS receives all
works with both Apple and Android smart phones and tablets. referrals electronically through Kno2’s integrated platform, and is able to dispatch an
“About 75 million American adults have high blood pressure, which is one in admission coordinator to the patient’s bedside within minutes, even during nights,
every three American adults,” said Wade Shu, iHealth’s Vice President of Product weekends and holidays, delivering much-needed comfort and relief to hospice
Development. “Understanding blood pressure data and taking accurate blood patients and their families.
pressure readings are of vital importance to so many people worldwide and Yale New Haven Hospital has leveraged VITAS’ integrated solution to expedite
iHealth wants to make sure those daily tasks are easier than ever. Our vision is patient transitions to end-of-life care. Hospice-appropriate patients are identified
to design new products that allow people to spend more time with their families within the hospital’s EHR and referred directly to VITAS. Admission coordinators are
and less time at the doctor’s office.” notified via their mobile device and respond immediately.

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18 July 2017 southfloridahospitalnews.com South Florida Hospital News