Isansys Lifecare Ltd, the provider of complete real-time physiological patient data services and systems, is this week celebrating its fifth anniversary.

In 2010, cofounders Keith Errey and Rebecca Weir set out with a vision to overcome barriers of technology integration and data accessibility in healthcare. They wanted to provide healthcare organisations with patient monitoring technologies and data analytics that would improve clinical decision making and patient outcomes, and reduce the costs of dealing with patient safety issues such as avoidable death and adverse events.

Over the course of the last five years, Isansys has made that vision a reality by creating a wireless patient monitoring system, called the Patient Status Engine (PSE). This provides a complete end-to-end platform to continuously and wirelessly capture, collect, interpret and securely store vital sign and other physiological data. The PSE incorporates a range of unobtrusive wearable sensors including the Lifetouch cardiac monitor, a wireless ‘smart patch’ that collects data directly from the patient and analyses every heartbeat to provide continuous heart rate, respiration rate and heart rate variability; the Lifetemp, a continuous wireless clinical thermometer, a continuous wireless pulse oximeter and a wireless blood pressure monitor.

Keith Errey, CEO of Isansys, said: “We launched Isansys at what was a pivotal time for healthcare professionals and organisations looking to benefit from the well-documented need of such systems to improve patient outcomes and reduce the number of adverse events, while simultaneously reducing the overall costs of healthcare.

Co-founder Rebecca Weir, now Director of Business Development, added: “We recognised that there was, and still is, a demand from busy healthcare professionals wanting to generate health benefits for their patients and economic benefits for their organisation. However, we learned that doctors and nurses were only open to new technologies if they provided robust, accurate and relevant data which would give them new insights into their patients’ health, and enable them to spend more time caring for those patients without involvement in the hassles and complexities of the technology and the regulatory burdens.”

Now, as part of its celebrations, the Oxfordshire-based company is getting prepared to launch the PSE2, its second generation wireless patient digitisation platform which incorporates the accumulated learning and feedback from hundreds of doctors, nurses and patients, and will significantly improve patient monitoring and provide the robust data and timely early warning indicators in hospital and at home, which both doctors and nurses were seeking.

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