NK-FUTURELINK™
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Patient Monitoring Software,
Engineered for Better Care.™
Improving
Clinical Workflow
Premium-as-standard design enables access to latest clinical workflows.
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Enhanced
Security Protocols
Dedicated to developing software you can trust.
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Exceptional ROI
Industry-leading total cost of ownership.
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Expert Guidance
Upgrade with confidence and minimal disruption.
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End-to-End
Interoperability
Deliver complete patient information.
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Simply Delivered.™
Improving Clinical Workflow
Nihon Kohden's goal is to simplify your workflow and allow you to spend more time with your patients. Our engineers work hand-in-hand with our clinical end-users to continuously improve workflows. Here are some key clinical areas where NK-FutureLink Patient Monitoring Software updates have enabled smart, safe clinical workflows.
- It is important to maintain a high standard of monitoring care, even during transport1
- WLAN transport enables seamless HL7 connection and monitoring through transport2
- Can allow clinicians to identify potential health issues early and maintain data continuity throughout the care continuum
- Warren J. Fromm RE, Jr, Orr RA, Rotello, LC, Horst HM. Guidelines for the inter- and
intrahospital transport of critically ill patients. Crit Care Med. 2004;32(1):256-262. - Available with Life Scope Transport (BSM-1700) and QI-170. G9 or Life Scope BSM-6000
as host monitors, Life Scope Central Station, and NK-HiQ Enterprise Gateway.
- Ambulation is an essential part of recovery in a hospital and may decrease the length of stay and improve outcomes1
- The need for continuous patient monitoring can hinder ambulation
- NK-HiQTM View (Life Scope G9) and ZM-View (Life Scope BSM-6000) enables patient to walk with Life Scope G3 or ZM series telemetry
- Maintains uninterrupted monitoring on the bedside monitor's main screen, and combines data into one complete patient file
- Roberts, Melanie, Laura Adele Johnson, and Trent L. Lalonde. "Early mobility
in the intensive care unit; standard equipment vs a mobility platform."
American Journalist of Critical Care 23.6 (2014): 451-457.
- 85-99% of alarm signals don't require clinical intervention1
- Sleep mode on the Life Scope bedside monitors prevents the monitor from disturbing the patient during rest or sleep
- New enhancements, including configurable patient alarm master profiles, configurable alarm delays, and patient specific alarm prioritization, can help reduce nuisance alarms. Eliminating 10% of nuisance alarms in a 100-bed hospital may save up to $14,600 per year2
- Aware® Alarm Management Software provides reports and analytics of alarm information, a powerful tool to help alarm management committees identify problem areas, justify policy changes, and track compliance
- The Joint Commission. 2013. Sentinel Event Alert Issue 50: Medical device alarm
safety in hospitals. http://www.jointcomission.org/sea_issue_50/ - NK internal analysis
- Dual SpO2 with Nihon Kohden or Masimo SpO2 and adjustable SpO2 labels
- Car seat challenge to help identify babies that might be at higher risk for problems while in a semi-reclined position
- OCRG (Oxygen-Cardio-Respirogram) with event-linked full disclosure
- Histogram to help assess how well a patient stays within prescribed limits
- Oversight with interbed monitoring of vital information and alarm status of another bed in the network
- New software is always designed with quick clinical access in mind, making it easier for you to view the most important information
- In just one or two clicks, perform rapid assessment and intervention, depending on your patient's condition
- Provides a more complete view of your patient's status, with continuous enhancements to better visualize ventilator and neurological data
Enhanced Security Protocols
The use of newer technologies and quick advances in IT technology in recent years has rapidly transformed the healthcare landscape and streamlined patient care. While these changes have helped improve the quality of patient care, they have also created growing threats to IT security through cyberattacks.
Addressing the challenge of cybersecurity plays an integral part in how we design and develop our products. It is our commitment to engineer products with cybersecurity in mind, and to evaluate and respond to new threats or vulnerabilities.
Here are some examples of how NK-FutureLink Patient Monitoring Software updates help fulfill our promise.
- NK-HiQ Enterprise Gateway supports Windows® 2019 Server
- 802.11 enabled devices (Life Scope BSM-1700, G3, SVM-7200) support network authentication WPA Personal, WPA2 Personal, 802.1X, WPA Enterprise, WPA2 Enterprise
- Configurable unlock password added to Life Scope G3 Telemetry
- Nihon Kohden validates the latest Windows OS patches and publishes the results here
Exceptional ROI: Financial Predictability
Once you purchase a Nihon Kohden Life Scope patient monitor, all software upgrades and updates are included for the life of our Life Scope products1. This is unmatched in the industry, allowing our customers to have improved financial predictability and a minimized total cost of ownership, while still having access to the latest software.
400-bed Facility – Lifetime Cost of Software2,3
- Life of our Life Scope Product refers to the period in which the product is
actively sold by Nihon Kohden America - Competitor price based on $730 per bed per year for software upgrades
- Nihon Kohden price based on annual support for NK-HiQ Enterprise Gateway
with all server extensions active for 400 beds ($189 per bed per year)
Expert Guidance
Nihon Kohden is the only healthcare company continuously dedicated to patient monitoring and neurology since its inception. We help customers seamlessly transition to new technology every day with minimum disruption; on average, Nihon Kohden installs one new patient monitor every hour in a hospital.
Nihon Kohden Senior Nurse Executives provide industry‑leading results because they have frontline experience, dealing with the same issues you face every day.
- Consulting on the development of centralize or decentralized monitoring and command center solutions
- Adding or expanding remote telemetry programs
- Partnering with hospital leadership to standardize patient monitoring in new or existing healthcare systems, individual hospitals including specialty programs (stroke, orthopedics, oncology, chest pain) and expanding service lines
- Helping to enhance and optimize patient workflows based on the mission, vision and goals of the organization
- Offering best practices in alarm management and fatigue
"The Nurse Executive listened to our team members' current state, prompted thinking of and discussion of future state, and related/communicated key benefits of Nihon Kohden's monitoring solutions. This directly supports our hospital's activities around patient safety and data integrity during patient transport and transfer."
– Debbie Marshburn, CNO at Cape Fear Valley Health.
- Training and support during monitoring system implementation, with options for on-site re-training for existing and active Nihon Kohden patient monitoring customers, and post-installation clinical optimization
- Standard 4-Part Clinical Excellence Program provides weekday education and support included at no charge for initial implementation
- On-line training via NK University (NKU) is offered to the hospital at no charge for the life of the equipment
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- Training for hospital biomedical or health technology staff on how to support Nihon Kohden’s patient monitoring system
- Nihon Kohden is one of the only companies that offers biomedical staff training at no additional cost
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- Nihon Kohden offers optional on-site services to help perform software upgrades and provide additional clinical training for new features
- With an annual support service agreement for the NK-HiQ Enterprise Gateway and related server products, we keep your platform up-to-date with the latest server application software
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End-to-End Interoperability
NK-FutureLink Patient Monitoring Software brings together data from third-party devices and transfers data to the hospitals' desired end-point, including EMRs, middlewares and remote viewing devices.
THIRD-PARTY DEVICES
- An ever-growing library of new device interfaces
- Display data on patient monitor
- Transmit data onto the network
- Reduce the need for other medical device integration solution
Many other third-party interfaces available
See Operators Manual for qualifying third-party device interface compatibility
NK-HIQTM ENTERPRISE GATEWAY
- Backbone of the Nihon Kohden Patient Monitoring System
- Consolidates multiple applications into a single, powerful server or VM instance–saving time, space and money
- Allows clinicians the ability to access complete patient information
Interfaces to many other EMRs, middleware,
and software platforms
NKANYWHERE™ – push software updates and settings over the network to Nihon Kohden Patient Monitors
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