ANDOVER, MA – Sometimes it seems easier to heal a sick patient than it does to manage all the medical devices at his or her bedside.

Healthcare providers would certainly like to do more of the former and less of the latter, so Capsule is introducing the Neuron, a touch-enabled bedside monitor that communicates wirelessly with and displays the connectivity status of bedside point-of-care devices. Company officials say the Neuron will help clinicians improve the care delivery process by ensuring the quick and accurate flow of medical information to the electronic medical record.
“We manage the complexity at the bedside and get that information into the EMR,” said John M. Douglass, president of the Andover, Mass.-based company.

Douglass and Brian McAlpine, the company’s director of strategic products, say the Neuron can interact with devices connected to the hospital’s wired or wireless LAN as well as with those connected to the Neuron’s own docking station. Data is displayed on a touchscreen that keeps track of each device’s connectivity and is saved through Capsule’s DataCaptor software platform, which stores the information in the event of a power interruption.
The system has received rave reviews from Draeger Medical Systems, an Andover, Mass.-based developer of point-of-care clinical support equipment and services.

“Capsule has been an important device connectivity partner for us for years,” said Ken Fuchs, director of systems and connectivity engineering for Draeger. “Healthcare organizations today are looking to get more of their medical device data connected into their clinical information systems and EMRs because they understand it improves clinician efficiency as well as patient care. We believe the Capsule Neuron is a key ingredient of Capsule’s upcoming product suite, and immediately benefits our customers through timely connectivity status updates right at the bedside.”