AvaSure Release: The Avasys Video Patient Monitoring System Is Reaching A Critical Mass

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Six years after pioneering an efficient and effective means of keeping patients safe from falls and other harm, AvaSure announced record 2015 sales, reinforcing its position as the dominant provider of video monitoring services. The year also saw many users disseminating positive clinical results from the AvaSys^® monitoring system in journals and presentations at major conferences.

“Hospitals are also using AvaSys in new venues, such as ICUs, emergency rooms, in psych units and in isolation rooms for cases of TB and Ebola. Our vision of AvaSys’ true potential for keeping patients safe during their hospital stay is coming closer to fruition.”

AvaSys is a remote patient observation and communications platform that enables both visual and audio monitoring of patients at risk of falls. It allows a single caregiver to keep track of as many as 15 patients at once from a central monitoring station. These trained observers can vocally intervene with patients – while simultaneously summoning a nurse – long enough to avert harm. AvaSys provides both permanent in-room and mobile audio-visual observation units. The latter can simply be wheeled into a room and turned on, giving nurses instant room coverage.

During 2015 AvaSure recorded 92 hospital sales. Of those, 62 involved first-time buyers, bringing the total count of hospitals adopting AvaSys to 184. The new clients include some of the nation’s largest and most prestigious healthcare institutions:

• Partners Healthcare, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School (four hospitals with AvaSys)
• Cleveland Clinic’s Fairview (Ohio) Hospital
• University of Michigan Hospitals
• Houston Methodist Hospital
• Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston (four hospitals with AvaSys)
• Mount Sinai Health System in New York City
• Ochsner Health System in Louisiana
• Providence Health System in Washington state

Also last year, AvaSure had two firsts: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., became the first cancer specialty hospital to adopt AvaSys, and Phoenix Children’s Hospital the first pediatric care facility to begin video monitoring.

Meanwhile, hospitals and health systems making second, third or even fourth orders included Ascension Health, Dignity Health, Beaumont Health in Michigan and Inova Health System in Virginia, among many others.

“From California to New York, Wisconsin to Texas, and Florida to the Pacific Northwest, hospitals are using AvaSys to solve persistent and complex safety problems, including falls, patients removing IVs, patients wandering off and violence directed at staff,” said Brad Playford, AvaSure’s founder and CEO. “Hospitals are also using AvaSys in new venues, such as ICUs, emergency rooms, in psych units and in isolation rooms for cases of TB and Ebola. Our vision of AvaSys’ true potential for keeping patients safe during their hospital stay is coming closer to fruition.”

Dorothy Bybee, RN, MSN, MBA, Assistant Chief Nursing Officer of the Via Christi Health System in Kansas, manages 26 patient monitoring units at four of the system’s hospitals. She has seen the technology significantly reduce falls and reduce expenditures for sitters, which are staff members assigned to sit in the room of an at-risk patient. “Remote video monitoring supports our mission of continuously improving the quality and safety of the care we provide to our patients,” Bybee says. “Being able to prevent a single fall with injury is a gift.”