Prevent Adverse Events With Defensive Monitoring™.

Prefense™—Early Detection and Notification System™

Today, every hospital is grappling with two key issues—improving quality and controlling costs. Aggregate data from leading healthcare organizations demonstrate that early detection of patient distress results in faster intervention of care. Yet continuous monitoring and observation of patients currently take place only in hospital areas where patients are deemed most at risk. Many of the nearly 15 million instances of medical harm occurring in the U.S. each year involve unmonitored patients. Both early detection and notification are critical to saving lives and avoiding costs.

With Prefense—Early Detection and Notification System, Nihon Kohden makes it possible—and affordable—to continuously monitor your at-risk patients, not just those in conventionally monitored areas such as critical care or telemetry. Prefense goes far beyond the traditional spot-check monitoring strategy. This innovative Defensive Monitoring™ system enables medical personnel to monitor and track trends on vital statistics on a continuous basis via a wireless transmitter, providing advance warning of patient deterioration that is simply unattainable using traditional spot-check technology.