The wave clinical platform is software intended to route, store, and display data, alarms, results and diagnostic information from medical devices, electronic medical records (emr), and clinical information systems (cis).The wave clinical platform is a remote monitoring platform that displays physiologic data, waveforms, alarms, results and diagnostic information routed through the platform from supported devices and systems.The wave clinical platform is intended for use in hospital or hospital type environments.The wave clinical platform is intended to be used by healthcare professionals for the following purposes: to remotely consult regarding patients¿ statuses; to remotely review other standard or critical near real-time patient data, waveforms, alarms, and results in order to utilize this information to aid in clinical decisions.The user manual contains warnings such as "the wave clinical platform is intended to supplement and not replace any part of the hospital's device monitoring or electronic data management systems.Do not rely on the wave clinical platform product as the sole source of alarms".Troubleshooting activities determined the alerts were not being sent to voalte mobile from vaam due to a bug, the units needed to be added manually to the database to resolve the issue.No further assistance was required and the customer confirmed the unit was functioning properly.It was additionally noted that this was a new site being setup with everything, hillrom nurse call, vaam, and voalte mobile.There was no patient injury associated with the reported event.However, it is likely the reported malfunction could contribute to a death or serious injury if it were to recur.Therefore, hillrom is cautiously reporting this event.
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