Awarded a SBRI Healthcare Development Contract

Date Published: 21st Nov 2014
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OBS Medical Limited (“OBS Medical”,”OBS”), is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a £0.5 million (US $0.85 million) SBRI Healthcare Development contract to pilot Visensia® Mobile to help improve patient safety and outcomes through the early detection of patient deterioration.

Respiration Rate is the most sensitive early marker of patient deterioration. Due to the limitations of conventional continuous respiratory rate monitoring outside the Intensive Care Unit (“ICU”), monitoring of this vital sign is normally undertaken by clinicians during routine observations. More frequent Respiration Rate assessment outside of the ICU is surprisingly challenging.

Visensia® Mobile derives a patient’s Respiration Rate from the PPG waveform being received from a pulse oximeter. A confidence index for the Respiration Rate is calculated and only if the confidence is high, is the Respiration Rate transmitted and displayed.

Using Visensia® “data fusion” technology, Visensia® Mobile continuously analyses the data being received from the pulse oximeter and automatically alerts clinicians (VSI Alert) to any patients whose vital signs have moved away from normality, highlighting them as being at greater risk of deterioration. This then allows for closer monitoring or intervention sooner than routine periodic observational Track & Trigger methods, thus providing truly ‘Life Saving Insight™’.

http://www.sbrihealthcare.co.uk/case-studies/obs-medical-limited/

About SBRI Healthcare

The Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare) is a NHS England initiative, championed by the newly formed Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), who aim to promote UK economic growth whilst addressing unmet health needs and enhancing the take up of best known practice. As a part of Innovation Health and Wealth, the SBRI Healthcare programme sets industry the challenge in a series of health related competitions which result in fully funded development contracts between the awarded company and the NHS. Unlike many R&D projects which offer grant or match funding, SBRI contracts are 100 per cent funded and the company retains the IP. This work has been commissioned and funded by NHS England. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily that of the funding partners. www.sbrihealthcare.co.uk

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