Cadi Scientific won the NHG Healthcare Supplier Awards 2017 for productivity improvement (merit award). The poster is entitled “World’s First Wearable Continuous Vital Signs Monitors for NUH and TTSH General Ward Patients” shown below. To improve patient safety in general wards while reducing nurses’ workload, Cadi Scientific has introduced and implemented the continuous vital signs…
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Sotera ViSi Mobile facilitates timely interventions in Singapore hospitals
The ViSi Mobile (Sotera Wireless, San Diego, California, USA) is a wearable patient monitoring system for continuous monitoring of ECG, heart/pulse rate, SpO2, respiration rate, skin temperature, continuous NIBP (cNIBP), posture, and motion. In recent evaluations of the system in hospitals in Singapore, the system detected several critical situations and alerted the caregivers, enabling the…
Medical device interface helps TTSH nurses halve the time for recording vital signs
Straits Times, news article (extract), June 28, 2012: Nurses at Tan Tock Seng Hospital have nearly halved the time they take to record patients’ blood pressure, pulse rate and other vital signs, thanks to a gadget which captures data on the go. The Medical Device Interface (MDI)— which runs on a tablet computer — automatically…
Trial at Singapore General Hospital uses wireless sensors to automatically monitor patients’ temperature and locations
Straits Times, news articles (extract), February 28, 2006: Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is transforming the way doctors and nurses monitor patients’ temperatures and movements — reducing paperwork and the need of labour-intensive records. In a $100,000 trial that began last Monday, patients in the orthopaedic ward are each tagged with 30mm diameter ThermoSensor disc…