Industry Partner:
Advancing Data,
Enhancing Outcomes
RDT will shortly be clearing to market a new version of its Tempus monitor, Tempus Pro*. (RDT photo)
Remote Diagnostic Technologies (RDT), Ltd, offers rapid multi-level, multi-point data accessibility to optimize care before a patient is even there. By Roz Thomas, Remote Diagnostic Technologies, LTD
One of the greatest challenges the U.S. military has faced over the decades is the ability to collect and share patient data from point of injury throughout the continuum of care. Patient data is often lost completely or written on paper or frequently on the body, but not incorporated into the patient’s record of care. When the patient is presented at the FRSS, BAS, CSH, or back in CONUS, there is no record of the patient’s vital signs data, encounters, or interventions.
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The receiving care giver has no historical data to utilize in order to quickly assess and treat the patient. If patient data could be handed off with the patient, or easily downloaded onto a laptop, the patient record could be accessible at each level of care and ultimately incorporated into the long term record of care. If the full patient data had been transmitted to the receiving facility prior to patient arrival, RDT believes that patient outcomes could be improved. RDT’s Tempus vital signs monitor has the ability to easily document and share all patient data electronically from the battlefield across the continuum of care back to CONUS. Tempus software enables the creation of an
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