CareVia Selected as Official Video Safety and Biometric Patient Monitoring Platform for Intelligent Hospital Pavilion at HIMSS 2014

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 22, 2014

CareVia (http://www.CareVia.com), the premier provider of remote patient monitoring and communications, and the Intelligent Hospital, a subsidiary of the RFID in Healthcare Consortium, today announced that CareVia will be the official video safety and biometric patient monitoring platform for the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion at HIMSS 2014 in Orlando, Fla., from Feb. 23-26, 2014.

As the healthcare landscape shifts to value-based care, the importance of making patient biometric data available in real-time has become increasingly important to the success of clinical and wellness organizations. A simple solution to a complex problem, CareVia automates key elements of remote population monitoring, management and communication, allowing for a real-time bi-directional flow of data, insights and communications. An end-to-end software solution, CareVia provides a secure means to acquire, transmit, store and access biometric patient information remotely – at the hospital, in the home or on the go. As part of its service suite, CareVia also provides integrated HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and safety surveillance.

With over 7,000 visitors last year, the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion is one of the most popular attractions at HIMSS, and will provide exciting demonstrations and use cases of health information technology from multiple collaborating vendors.

At the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion, CareVia will be showcasing its remote monitoring and video safety platform. The operating rooms, intensive care unit, patient recovery rooms, cardiovascular center and home will be wired with CareVia’s monitoring technology. The video footage will be streamed in real-time to monitors in and around the Pavilion with simultaneous overlays of biometric data that is gathered and transmitted using CareVia’s proprietary software. Additionally, CareVia will be providing two-way, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing between the home and pharmacy and also between the operating room and offsite specialists.

“We are thrilled to have CareVia powering the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion. CareVia is revolutionizing the ways in which healthcare is delivered, and we are proud to showcase their solutions,” said Harry Pappas, CEO, RFID in Healthcare Consortium.

Tre Zimmerman, CareVia Founder and President, said, “CareVia is delighted to exhibit its patient monitoring and communication solutions at the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion. At CareVia, we are driven to help care providers control costs while improving patient satisfaction, compliance and the quality of care – this is a great opportunity to demonstrate our capabilities.”

CareVia will be providing a live demonstration of their solution at HIMSS14 booth 5695. A video of the 2013 Intelligent Hospital Pavilion can be found here.

About the RFID in Healthcare Consortium
The RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) is a not-for-profit, global organization founded to elevate awareness and to educate the Life Sciences community on the adoption of new technologies. The RHCC is an educationally focused, vendor-neutral, technology and frequency agnostic, association dedicated to promoting the use and adoption of auto-ID, NFC, RFID, RTLS, sensors and wireless technologies in the healthcare, assisted and independent living and nursing home industries. For more information, please visit: http://www.rfidinhealthcare.org.

About the Intelligent Hospital
The “Intelligent Hospital ™” (http://www.intelligenthospital.org) which is located within the footprint of the Intelligent Hospital™ Pavilion has been created to help raise the level of awareness and to educate the healthcare industry on the many applications of Auto-ID, Biometrics, BLE, M2M, NFC, RFID, RTLS, Sensors, Mobile devices and Wireless technologies and how they can be integrated within the clinical scenarios of health care facility. Visitors to the pavilion see first-hand how these technologies are able to deliver real-time data from the patient’s room/bedside to the clinicians smart mobile devices, thus providing caregivers with real-time visibility of people, assets, and processes. When properly implemented, these technologies can have a tremendous impact on patient safety and on the quality of care delivered while at the same time reducing operating expenses.

The “Intelligent Hospital” (http://www.intelligenthospital.tv) is a dynamic simulator enabling the visualization of how complex clinical devices can be coupled with layers of inter-connectivity and seamlessly integrated with a variety of complementary technologies and software to deliver critical information via mobile communication devices to the caregiver.

About CareVia
CareVia is a remote monitoring and communications platform that provides a secure means to acquire, transmit, store and access patient information. Central to CareVia’s solution is its integrated HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and safety surveillance capabilities, enabling care to be properly administered and documented at the hospital, in the home, or on the go.

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