New JAMA Article Highlights the Outcome and Safety Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring During the Pandemic and Beyond

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[{"type":"text","content":"\nMasimo SafetyNet® Reduced Mortality Among COVID-19 Patients\n\n IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nMasimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the findings of a Viewpoint article recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which highlighted the benefits of remote home patient monitoring, reporting in part on research that used Masimo SafetyNet®, a remote patient management solution. In the article, “Remote Patient Monitoring During COVID-19: An Unexpected Patient Safety Benefit,” Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, and colleagues Melissa Cole, MSN, and Robert Hughes, DO, at University Hospitals Health System (UH) and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio conclude that through recent technological advances in remote monitoring, a patient’s physiological needs can now more often be the primary factor in determining the level of monitoring they receive, rather than their physical location (i.e. the monitoring capabilities of the beds in a particular hospital care area).1 By not only ensuring that patients receive the appropriate level of monitoring, but enabling lower-acuity patients to be safely and reliably monitored in the comfort of their own home, Masimo SafetyNet remote patient monitoring solutions helped keep valuable hospital beds free for higher-acuity patients and improve patient safety while doing so.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220418005192/en/Masimo SafetyNet® (Photo: Business Wire)\nTo frame their argument, the authors note that the COVID-19 pandemic has “accelerated the move to monitoring and therapy based on patient risks and needs” through a “combination of medical urgency, technology advances, and payment policy.” In their article, they stress the importance of continuous monitoring throughout the patient's hospital stay, and while still ill in the home. The authors also highlight the newly recognized benefits of this shift to monitoring based on need (not location) by demonstrating how technological advances have led to impressive positive outcomes for patients monitored at home. They note that the same “[Masimo SET®] Pulse oximeters used in hospitals can now be deployed at home with patient data relayed to smartphones, secure cloud servers, and web-based dashboards where physicians and hospitals c...

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