Innovate

Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring

In 2025, UH expanded the remote patient monitoring capabilities with the goals of enhancing patient safety, improving the patient experience, and increasing operational efficiencies. UH is among the first health systems in the nation to deploy Masimo Radius VSM continuous monitoring, wirelessly connected to Masimo Patient SafetyNet for centralized remote patient surveillance, for generally admitted pediatric and adult patients across the entire system. Specifically, CMC housed the first Medical/Surgical unit in the nation to deploy Masimo’s ECG technology along with Radius VSM monitoring. This new technology promotes greater patient safety and better healing for patients.

Wireless Compression Devices

• Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the leading cause of preventable hospital death in the United Stated. 70% of hospital-associated VTE are preventable with prophylactic measures, like sequential compression devices (SCDs) worn on legs. Traditionally, patients don’t like to wear SCDs because it prevents them from moving to the chair or walking because they are wired to the power source. The nurses on Lerner Tower 9 worked with company to trial and modify battery powered SCDs.
• The wireless SCD increased compliance of use and increased patient satisfaction and comfort.

Updated OR Suite Space

Some of the Mather operation room spaces at Cleveland Medical Center have been equipped with new technology, creating a hybrid space allowing better patient outcomes and enhanced learning opportunities. Benefits include:

• Drastically lower amounts of radiation exposure to our patients.
  • This is done through cutting edge technology while also allowing the procedures to be shorter in duration.
• The patient is under anesthesia for a shorter time
  • Not only is this safer for patients by reducing the chance of Anesthesia post-operative effects, it also reduces OR cost. This is a cost saving passed on to patients.
• Enhanced imaging allows the providers to quickly diagnose and implement lifesaving interventions.
• Better visualization of the surgical field helping support students and residents in their training.