13-Hospital Integrated Healthcare System in California Standardizes Patient Care to New Noninvasive Monitoring Platform
Prime Healthcare and Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) jointly announce the system-wide conversion of Prime Healthcare's hospitals to Masimo rainbow® SET technology. The system-wide conversion ensures that patients visiting any Prime Healthcare hospital in California will be cared for using the most technologically and clinically-advanced oximetry and noninvasive patient monitoring solutions available.
"We're pleased and quite amazed with our conversion to Masimo," stated George Garcia, Regional Director of Cardiopulmonary Services at Prime Healthcare. "Not only is the technology impressive in that it has improved the quality of our diagnostic testing capabilities, which makes our overall operations more efficient and effective, but it was the smoothest system-wide technology transition that I've ever been involved with."
Converting Prime Healthcare's entire hospital system to the Masimo rainbow SET technology platform will standardize multiparameter patient monitors, oximeters, and sensors at 13 hospitals and sites of care throughout California. The oximetry standard-of-care at leading hospitals worldwide, Masimo rainbow SET enables innovative noninvasive measurements and patient monitoring capabilities that provide real-time results for critical blood constituents and physiological parameters that help clinicians to more rapidly assess, diagnose, and treat patients.
As the only upgradable oximetry technology platform allowing hospitals to add breakthrough noninvasive blood constituent measurement capabilities that previously required invasive procedures, Masimo rainbow SET noninvasively and continuously measures total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC™), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVI®), and acoustic respiration rate (RRa™), in addition to the 'gold-standard' Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion performance of Masimo SET®oxyhemoglobin (SpO2), perfusion index (PI), and pulse rate (PR)—facilitating earlier detection and treatment of life-threatening conditions.
The conversion also facilitates the installation of Masimo SpHb-enabled monitors. With SpHb, clinicians have the ability to quickly measure hemoglobin levels noninvasively and continuously track them in real-time to detect low or falling hemoglobin levels that could be the result of internal bleeding. Numerous clinical studies have shown that detecting hemoglobin changes earlier with SpHb allows clinicians to intervene sooner to help protect patients from the potentially disastrous consequences of occult bleeding and post-surgical hemorrhage.1-7
Masimo Founder and CEO, Joe Kiani, stated, "Prime Healthcare is a great example of a growing trend where healthcare systems and hospital networks are leveraging advanced noninvasive medical technologies like Masimo rainbow SET to help improve patient care, outcomes, and safety."