VALLEY STREAM, N.Y., Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — National Health Care Associates Inc., a network of affiliated skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living centers throughout the northeast, and Circadia Technologies Ltd. (Circadia), engineers of the world’s first FDA-cleared truly contactless remote patient monitoring system, announce a partnership in an effort to help prevent hospitalizations and increase positive health outcomes for those in skilled nursing centers.
The Circadia C100 System (Circadia System) manufactured by Circadia monitors respiratory rate through contactless radar-based technology. The wireless device is simply mounted to a wall near a resident’s bed. It records a resident’s respiratory rate every three seconds and compresses the data, which is stored in a portal and monitored by licensed healthcare professionals. Upon further review by clinicians, when a resident shows a change in respiratory rate, the center’s care team may receive an alert so they can immediately increase diagnostics at the bedside and start to investigate the cause of the change in respiratory rate — which could be caused by anything from a urinary tract infection (UTI) to a major cardiac event.
The Circadia System helps clinicians monitor residents at risk of, or diagnosed with, COVID-19, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sepsis, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, fall risk, UTIs, and acute renal failure. Three New York State centers in the National Health Care Associates network have used the device since December 2020. Other centers located in New York and Connecticut plan to go live with the Circadia System by the end of the year.