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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".Voalte nurse call system provides visual and/or audible event alert notification via designated communication devices (mobile phones).Notification calls are configured with naming convention, audio and /or visual displays based on customer preference at the time of initial integration.Troubleshooting activities determined the vaam service stopped running due to lack of available memory and needed to be restarted to resolve the issue.It was additionally noted that the nurse call system was never impacted; however, the calls were not being forwarded to the voalte mobile devices through vaam due to the memory issue stopping the service from running on the server.An interruption, due to a malfunction of vaam, in the receipt of an emergent alert, could result in serious injury or death if the event were to recur an the caregiver was solely relying on receiving the secondary alert via mobile phone notification and not the alert that is generated from the primary monitoring device connected to the patient.Therefore, hillrom is cautiously reporting this event.
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