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Is anyone using the new Philips IntelliVue XDS any thoughts opinions on the monitor?

XDS is not a monitor per se, but more like an extension to the monitor. It connects to the Intellivues through LAN and acts like a second display - you can display additional waves and digits, eg. if your intellivue has 8 wave channels, XDS gives you 8 additional wave channels. You can also run the philips charting system and PACS on it.

We had a demo of XDS a few days ago... Apparently Philips is giving away the software for free. As long as you have one of their monitors with the newest software, you can load the XDS software in to any of your PCs and connect to the monitor. When you run the software, you see a window on the PC that looks like the patient monitor, with all the controls. The display shown on the PC can be totally different to what is on the monitor. They are promoting this as a clinical workstation, where nurses can view and control the monitor from a convenient place (you know how crowded ICU rooms get, with all the equipment blocking the way). As one of the docs remarked, this is the kind of ergonomics that the nurses have wet dreams about

Oh yeah... and the other thing about XDS is that it can take the patient admission data from the monitor and send it to other programs (like the PACS, EMR). They claim that it can interface to most third party systems within minutes. I'm not sure how that exactly works, but the IT guys seemed to be convinced that it would work. The docs and nurses were pretty excited about this.

Oh, so you have ******** as doctors there as well, do you?



Why ... do they understand it, then?

Well, they grow everywhere, like mold under my sink.


Philips reps said that with this feature when you start your EMR or PACS or any other system, it will automatically go to that particular patients data without having to search. I'll believe it when I see it, though.

Mold under the sink? Yes, well put.

Although (like most on the forum, I should imagine ... and, indeed, hope) I think I can claim to be a kit guy, I also believe that the nurses' place is at the sickbed, not sat on their butts gawping into monitor screens.

After wading through philips website, finally managed to find the product page for XDS.

http://www.healthcare.philips.com/main/products/patient_monitoring/products/xds/index.wpd

PS. does anybody know what XDS stands for? The philips reps had no idea.

I think it stands for eXpensive Documenting System!

Fire that rep!

But see this link for a few more clues.

Looks like a good system which gives the user the ability to stay with the patient and review labs, scans etc. May even speed the process up certainly is a step in the right direction.