Global report names BEAMS hospital system as one to watchA new report on the Clinical Alarm Management Market by Future Market Insights has named Tutum Medical’s Bedside Equipment Alarm Monitoring System (BEAMS) as a recent development to watch.

The BEAMS system, developed for, and in conjunction with, Sheffield Children's Hospital, is for single-bed patient rooms and four- to six-bay wards and enables nurses to significantly improve response times to critical bedside alarms.

And it is the only acoustic solution which listens for medical device alarms and notifies staff of the source and urgency of the alarm.

The report said: “Sheffield Children's Hospital announced a collaboration with Tutum Medical in March 2017 to create a revolutionary design for a Bedside Equipment Alarm Monitoring System (BEAMS).

This just shows what a significant impact our BEAMS system is making in and for UK hospitals, especially for nurses’ efficiency and wellbeing and improving patient safety and experience

“The system provides crucial bedside equipment monitoring to improve nursing staff response times to alarms.

“The solution is expected to cut alarm response time by up to 95%, considerably lowering alarm fatigue and enhancing staff availability to serve important patients effectively."

On being included in thereport, managing director of Tutum Medical, Paul Rawlinson, said: “This just shows what a significant impact our BEAMS system is making in and for UK hospitals, especially for nurses’ efficiency and wellbeing and improving patient safety and experience.

“Every hospital where the multi-award-winning system has been adopted or trialled has seen improvement in response times to all bedside alarms.

”The system integrates a digital platform with audible monitors, a speaker system, and nurse consoles. It is also mains operated and creates its own Wi-Fi mesh network, which removes the need to interface to hospital infrastructure."