Mount Sinai Deploys Google Nest Cameras for Nurses to Communicate & Monitor COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
– Mount Sinai deploys Google Nest cameras across the system to help patients with COVID-19 that will enhance the safety of patients and staff, as well as reducing PPE demands.
– Google Nest partnered with Mount Sinai in April to pilot the console in a hospital setting as the virus reached peak levels in New York City.
The Mount Sinai
Health System has teamed up with Google Nest
to use the latest in video and audio technologies to monitor some of the most
critically ill patients with COVID-19 . Nurses
on the front line are using more than a hundred Nest Cameras installed at
hospitals across the system to closely monitor and communicate with
patients. In addition, the deployment will help preserve personal
protective equipment (PPE).
“This technology improves our efficiency by cutting down the number of times our medical team has to enter patient rooms, allowing us to preserve protective personal equipment. Twofold, it enhances safety for patients because we can keep an eye on everyone from the nursing station, and for our staff, it minimizes the frequency of time spent in-room with COVID-19 patients,” said Robbie Freeman, MSN, RN, Vice President of Clinical Innovations at The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Pilot Project to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
The purpose-built Nest Cameras console enables health care
workers to livestream a feed from an inpatient unit and initiate communication
with patients. Google Nest joined efforts with Mount Sinai in April to pilot
the console in a hospital setting as the virus reached peak levels in New York
City and continued to spread across the nation, causing an influx of patients
and straining resources for all hospitals. Google plans to provide up to
10,000 of the devices along with custom-designed monitoring consoles to health
systems and hospitals across the U.S. To address security and patient privacy
concerns, the Google Nest console system is designed so that Google doesn’t
store any patient footage collected.
“The Mount Sinai Health System remains committed to providing thoughtful, personalized care to patients while using the latest in cutting-edge technologies and digital health solutions,” said Sudipto Srivastava, MBA, Senior Director of Digital Health, Mount Sinai Health System. “We are grateful to partner with Google in curating a console that responds to the needs of so many hospitals right now. The Nest team worked with us over nights and weekends to develop a much-needed solution that addressed real challenges. This assists us with providing the highest level of care, while serving our patients and protecting our staff.”
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