Brand delivers a full patient remote monitoring system that integrates ambulance-to-hospital communications and offers a comprehensive, real-time solution where doctors and emergency responders (such as police, fire, and medical personnel) can coordinate effectively. This system enhances situational awareness and enables a seamless transition of patient care from the ambulance to the emergency department (ED), improving response times and decision-making during critical emergencies. In parallel the platform also provides isolated data feeds to other stakeholders such as fleet managers for vehicle asset management and tracking and video feeds available to disaptchers so they can keep 999 callers informed and live video can be shared amongst other emergency services, all isolated data paths but secured over a single communications path.
Real-Time Patient Monitoring: The system enables continuous remote monitoring of the patient’s vital signs (e.g., heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and ECG) while they are en route to the hospital in the ambulance. This data is transmitted in real-time to the emergency department, allowing doctors to assess the patient’s condition before arrival and prepare for immediate interventions if necessary.
Direct Communication Between Ambulance and Hospital: Seamless communication between the paramedics in the ambulance and the hospital staff ensures that critical medical information (such as the patient’s condition, medications administered, or injury type) is shared in real-time. This not only gives doctors advance insight into the patient’s needs but also helps them coordinate care more efficiently upon arrival.
Video Situational Awareness: The system includes live video feeds from inside the ambulance, allowing doctors, paramedics, and critical stakeholders to visually assess the patient and the treatment being administered. This real-time video can also be shared with key partners like police, fire, or other medical personnel for enhanced coordination during large-scale emergencies or multi-agency responses.
Fleet Management for Ambulance Monitoring: A parallel aspect of this system is fleet management, which allows managers to monitor the ambulance’s location, speed, and vehicle performance in real-time. This helps ensure that ambulances are operating efficiently, staying on course, and arriving at their destinations as quickly and safely as possible. It also provides insights into fuel usage, maintenance needs, and driver behavior, optimizing fleet performance over time.
Situational Awareness for Stakeholders: The system extends beyond just the medical team, allowing critical stakeholders—such as police, fire, and medical response teams—to share data and maintain full situational awareness during an emergency. This feature ensures that all teams are aligned, understand the patient’s condition, and can react promptly if additional coordination or response is needed, such as managing traffic, crowd control, or on-site medical assistance.
Multi-Channel Data Transmission: The system supports multi-channel communication for data, video, and voice, ensuring that critical information can be sent over different technologies (e.g., cellular, satellite, or radio networks) depending on the availability and strength of the signal. This redundancy ensures that even in areas with weak communication infrastructure, data continues to flow uninterrupted.
Enhanced Patient Outcomes: By providing real-time patient data and early access to medical information, doctors can prepare the ED for incoming patients more effectively, reducing treatment delays and improving outcomes in critical cases such as trauma, cardiac arrest, or stroke.
Improved Coordination Between Agencies: The system’s video and data-sharing features ensure that all emergency response teams (ambulance, fire, police, and hospital staff) are working together in real-time, improving inter-agency coordination during complex emergencies such as multi-vehicle accidents or mass casualty incidents.
Operational Efficiency for Fleet Managers: Fleet managers gain valuable insights into the location and performance of ambulances, allowing them to optimize routes, ensure timely maintenance, and monitor driver behavior to promote safe and efficient transportation.
Streamlined Care Handoffs: The continuous flow of patient data from the ambulance to the hospital ensures a seamless handoff when the patient arrives at the emergency department, with doctors already informed and ready to act based on the patient’s real-time condition.
Situational Awareness and Decision-Making: By providing live video feeds and real-time communication, doctors and paramedics can make faster, more informed decisions, while also allowing other critical responders to be aware of the patient’s status and adjust their actions accordingly.
Trauma and Accident Response: During a major traffic accident, paramedics can stream live video and patient vitals directly to the ED, while police and fire teams can coordinate traffic control and rescue efforts in sync with medical responses.
Cardiac or Stroke Emergencies: Real-time vital sign monitoring allows ED staff to prepare for life-saving interventions, such as thrombolysis for stroke patients, before the ambulance even arrives.
Mass Casualty Incidents: During mass casualty events, where multiple ambulances are involved, this system allows for better coordination, ensuring that hospitals and response teams are aligned and ready to receive patients.
Wearable Medical Devices: Patients can be outfitted with wearable sensors that transmit real-time vitals directly to the system.
Mobile and Cloud-Based Platforms: The system can leverage cloud-based technologies for storing and sharing patient data securely, accessible to stakeholders via mobile apps or dedicated devices.
Encrypted Communication Channels: All data, voice, and video communications are securely encrypted, ensuring that sensitive medical information is transmitted safely and in compliance with privacy regulations.
In summary, a full patient remote monitoring system from ambulance to the emergency department, integrated with fleet and situational awareness tools, creates a comprehensive, real-time communication and coordination framework. This system not only improves patient outcomes but also ensures efficient vehicle management and multi-agency collaboration during emergency responses.
The Brand solution centres around a remote device that runs the Brand SDWAN, SDSEC software. It is a device that can be in the form of a tiny telematics unit for monitoring home based patients or a vehicle mounted hub that delivers a number, (usually 6), isolated communications LANs. These communication path runs over a single WAN pipe that can transparently roam over multiple 4/5G pipes, LEO satellite such as Starlink or Wireless networks as available enroute. Each of the 6 isolated LANs can service different functions such as direct medical outputs from patient monitors, Cardiac, BP, SpO2, then another may be Video of the patient direct into the Emergency department for enroute assistance or pre-arrival assesment, another maybe Live Video from vehicle forward / rearward facing cameras for major incident situational awareness and feedback to managers or dispatchers, another maybe vehicle diagnostics and performance feedback to the fleet manager. All these functions are logically and securely isolated networks delivering the data directly to the point of need whilst simplifying considerably the architecture by using a common WAN platform. Each stakeholder access to the platform grants them access to the relevnt data stream based on their role or function. Critical to any patient data is the security of the platform which uses the Brand Military Grade and validated encryption.
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