The PeriCALM suite includes two clinical decision support-based applications: PeriCALM Patterns™, a fetal heart rate pattern recognition software, and PeriCALM Curve™, a dynamic labor progression software.
“PeriGen takes the guesswork out of assessing fetal strips and supports informed communication and data sharing among our physicians and nurses,” said Childbirth Center Director Luanne Miller.
“It is a great tool that helps us continue delivering higher quality and safer patient care. For physicians and nurses, it’s especially helpful to have that second ‘pair of eyes’ to confirm the fetal heart rate patterns that they are viewing onscreen and that their knowledge-based treatment decisions are on the right track.”
Griffin Hospital is a 160-bed acute care community hospital serving more than 100,000 residents of the Lower Naugatuck Valley Region.
PeriCALM is the facility’s first electronic perinatal system.
“PeriGen’s PeriCALM was the obvious choice after a careful review of the market-ready OB information systems that we considered,” said Patrick Charmel, president and chief executive officer, Griffin Hospital.
“Our nurses and physicians were impressed by the system’s unique capabilities, both for real-time pattern recognition of fetal monitor tracings and as a tool to conduct retrospective patient care reviews. PeriCALM’s Patterns and Curve technologies will support the efforts of our clinicians at the bedside, provide remote access to fetal tracings for our obstetricians, and enhance the quality of care provided to our patients.”
The National Institutes of Health experts compared PeriCALM’s Patterns software to having an expert at the bedside continuously evaluate a baby’s fetal heart rate.
The results validated that clinicians can have the confidence to use the FDA-cleared PeriCALM Patterns technology to interpret the electronic fetal monitoring strip – the most subjective and highest risk task in delivering a baby.
The Childbirth Center at Griffin Hospital offers family-centered maternity care in an environment that will best meet individual and family needs. The Childbirth Center follows the patient-centered Planetree philosophy that focuses providing a warm, caring atmosphere for the patient and loved ones, including childbirth and child care education, and support groups.
For information, call 203-732-7252 or visit griffinhealth.org/cbc.
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