MASSENA -- Massena Memorial Hospital is now using a patient monitoring system that centralizes data and can send it to clinicians outside of the hospital.

The Masimo Patient Safety Net collects patient data in real time, allowing for alarms and alerts to be sent to nurses and central stations.

Information can also be sent remotely to clinicians via pager or smartphone.

The system “integrates multiple streams of data and simplifies patient care workflows, empowering caregivers to help make quick patient assessments throughout the continuum of care,” according to a news release from MMH.

MMH spent $82,000 on the technology.

“Perhaps one of the biggest advantages is the time-saving feature of heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, breathing rate, and oxygen saturation values being wirelessly transmitted directly into the patient electronic record,” MMH medical, surgical and pediatric Nursing Director Lisa Susice said in a prepared statement.

“This system integration will save many steps for staff that have previously had to manually transcribe the information from the vital sign machine to a paper record then eventually key it into the electronic record.”

“We are excited to invest in this technology that will keep our patients safe and will improve the working conditions of our nurses,” MMH Chief Nursing Officer Ralene North said in the release.

“The less time a nurse spends entering data into the system, the more time that can be spent at the patient bedside attending to the personal and educational needs of our patients.”