Manufacturer Clinical Computer GE Healthcare Hill-Rom Co Inc

Systems Inc Technologies Navicare WatchChild

OBIX 7.x Centricity Perinatal
Clinical Information
System
WHERE MARKETED North America Worldwide Canada, USA
FDA CLEARANCE Yes Yes Yes
CE MARK (MDD) No Yes Not specified
SYSTEM SIZE, BEDS Unlimited Unlimited ≥300

COMPATIBLE MATERNAL/FETAL GE, Philips, Corometrics, Philips GE, Mondray,

MONITORS Spacelabs, others (HP), Spacelabs Neoventa, Philips
with appropriate
output
MATERNAL MONITORING Yes Vital signs (NIBP, NIBP, SpO2, ECG
INFORMATION HR, SpO2, ECG) (HR)
from interfaced
devices

DATA INPUT/DISPLAY
Bedside terminal Various options Customer-supplied to Customer-supplied,
required any Intel platform
specifications
Screen, cm (in) Various, 43.2-53.3 Customer-supplied to Any
(17-21) required
specifications

Input device Keyboard, mouse, Keyboard, mouse, Keyboard, mouse,

touchscreen, others light pen, trackball touchpad
(customer-supplied to
required
specifications)
Central station terminal Not specified Customer-supplied to Customer-supplied,
required any Intel platform
specifications

Screen, cm (in) Multiple screens, 4 x Customer-supplied to Any

3 or 16 x 9 ratio, required
using screen size specifications
43.2-101.6 (17-40)
Beds/display 1-100, optional ≤32, user-selectable 30 for surveillance
automatic per monitor, 99 on
configuration census board
Input device Keyboard and Keyboard, mouse, Keyboard, mouse,
pointing device(s) light pen, trackball touchpad
(customer-supplied to
required
specifications)
CLINICAL FUNCTIONS
Surveillance
 Displayed traces With automatic ≤32, FHR, FHR twin, MHR, FHR for 1-4
configuration UA, events, SpO2, babies, UA
BP, alerts,
annotations

FHR decelerations/ Yes, all tracing Bradycardia, Bradycardia,

accelerations information displayed tachycardia, tachycardia,
decelerations, variability, uterine
variability, uterine contractions
contractions
Alarms
Fetal Yes High and low, global; Global, adjustable;
selectable at bradycardia,
installation for basic tachycardia
tachycardia and/or
bradycardia (limits
and duration) or
enhanced Spectra
Alerts

Maternal No High and low, global; HR, NIBP, SpO2,

tachycardia/bradycar ECG
dia,
hyper-/hypotension,
interfaced device
alarm

Charting Gynecology, Supports patient Standardized

intrapartum, management for the package
recovery, postpartum, entire continuum,
newborn, NICU including prenatal
care, initial fetal non-
stress testing through
intrapartum, and
post-delivery
discharge for the
mother as well as
nursery or NICU
documentation for
infants

User-customizable Yes Optional with charting Yes

package

Critical pathways Yes Yes Yes

ADT Yes Yes Optional
 Statistical analysis/reports Yes Included with charting Yes
package; Access;
optional advanced
reporting available
with SQL
Quality assurance Yes Included with charting Yes
package
Customizable reports Yes Optional with charting Optional Microsoft
package Report Writer

Remote monitoring Internet-based for Optional OBLink, Yes

PCs and PDAs Citrix

Online chalkboard Yes Included with charting Yes

package
Others E-Tools for accurate Customizable rule User customizable
FHR assessment sets; numerous
computed items to
allow ease of
documentation and
entry; Apgar and
scoring tools

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Hardware platform PC-based Intel Pentium 4, 2 All Intel-based
GHz; RAID 5 + 1 hot
spare

Operating system Windows Windows Server Windows 2003

2008 R2 standard Enterprise, Windows
version, 64-bit SP 2 XP

Database management system MS SQL server Customized Clinical- SQL Server

ASCII delimited

Storage media Various options Archived to SAN/NAS 5.25" optical disk,

available mirrored or SAN

Capacity/disk Unlimited, depends CD-Recordable ≥60 GB

on PC disks, hard drive
NETWORK
Communication protocols TCP/IP TCP/IP, Ethernet TCP/IP, Ethernet
(802.3)

Architecture Client/server Client/server, Client/server

Ethernet
 Cable type CAT5 or CAT6, Ethernet, CAT5/5e/6, Twisted pair,
10/100 MHz 100Base-TX, fiberoptic
1000Base-TX,
802.11a,b,g (limited),
fiberoptic

ARCHIVING METHOD Automatic User-defined, Automatic at

manual, automated discharge

SYSTEM SECURITY Yes Multilevel password Multilevel password

HIPAA compliant Yes Yes Yes

PRINTERS Yes Customer-supplied Any
Printing options Various Chart form, flow Fetal strip, reports,
sheet, graphs, site- charts
configured layout,
fetal strip

SYSTEM UPGRADES
Frequency Annually (typically) Annually/bi-annually Quarterly

Cost Included with support Included under Software upgrades

Software updates/patches
Length of time available
TRAINING PROGRAM
contract optional software included with
services agreement software
maintenance
agreement contract
Included with support Remote or on-site Web-based
contract
Included with support Varies 3 years
contract
Included with HQ, web-based, and On-site training for
purchase, support on-site options administrators and
contract or available clinical users; on-site
hourly clinical support during
go-live

SUPPORT
Service response time <30 min 24/7 tech support 24/7 tech support,
on-site support
dependent on service
contract level

Phone support Yes (USA based) 24/7 24/7/365

Remote viewing Yes Yes Yes
Remote diagnostics Yes Yes Yes

INSTALLATION
 Date of first 1986 1992 1991
Number to date Not specified >1,600 >115
Time required from receipt of As required by ~12-16 weeks 8-12 weeks
order customer, average
90-120 days
PURCHASE INFORMATION
List price Varies with options Varies based on $10,000-100,000,
setup dependent upon
facility
requirements<1>
Warranty 1 year, 90 days or 30 90 days, software 1 year from
days and hardware from installation
GE; 3-5 years,
hardware from
manufacturer;
dependent upon
software service
agreement

Maintenance cost % of system price 18% of list price Software: 18% of

total software list
price
Fiscal year January to December January to December October to
September
GREEN FEATURES None specified None specified None specified
OTHER SPECIFICATIONS Configurable alerts. Formerly QS Optional strip
(Quantitative analysis tool; Joint
Sentinel); perinatal Commission
coverage (antenatal, assessments and
intrapartum, charting.
postpartum, nursery,
and NICU); WAN;
Web Office Clients
and Citrix; CCOW;
Centricity Perinatal
Connect Module,
Centricity Web, ADT
bi-directional; HL7
inbound/outbound;
LAB; charges; CPOE
alert indicator; Baby
Steps; meets Joint
Commission
requirements;
Association of
Women's Health,
Obstetric and
Neonatal Nurses
standards; National
Institute of Child
Health and Human
Development
terminology;
integrated nursing
and provider notes;
Medication
Administration
Record (MAR); intake
and output
documentation with
automatic hourly,
shift and 24-hour
totals;
multidisciplinary care
plans; nursing
interventions
documentation;
combined views for
task lists; creation of
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documentation;
Supplier Footnotes reminders for care;
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specialized care
plans.
PeriGen Inc Philips Healthcare
PeriCALM EFM North America
IntelliSpace Perinatal

Canada, USA Worldwide

Yes Yes
Yes Yes
≤100 ≤200 clients and
≤200 fetal monitors
per system; multiple
systems can work
together
Corometrics, Philips Philips, GE Medical
(HP), Spacelabs (Corometrics),
Sonicaid

Uterine contractions NIBP, HR,

and VS from EFM SmartPulse, SpO2,
(SpO2, ECG, and temperature
temperature in
development)

Yes Full client or RDP

based client

Any with resolution of User-selectable

1024 x 768 or 1024 x
1280, 3:4 aspect
ratios
Keyboard, mouse, Keyboard, mouse,
light pen, optional light pen
touchscreen and/or trackball

Not specified Full client or RDP

based client; can also
be server in small
installations
Any with resolution of User-selectable
1024 x 768 or 1024 x
1280, 3:4 aspect
ratios
≤25 ≤16

Keyboard, mouse, Keyboard, mouse, or

light pen, touchscreen; all
touchscreen Windows-supported
pointing devices
FHR, contractions, Triplets (FHR1,
and VS from EFM; FHR2, FHR3), MHR,
user-defined, ≤25 FMP (fetal movement
profile), TOCO,
FSpO2 (not available
in Japan)

Yes Pattern-based
alerting, criteria rule
sets available for
NST, AP, and IP

Visual and audible, High and low heart

user-defined rate, decelerations,
baseline, variability,
tachysystole,
increased uterine
pressure, signal loss,
coincidence
detection, paper out
on FM

Vital signs displayed NIBP (not available in

as recorded by fetal USA)
monitors

Intrapartum Antepartum,
annotations, full intrapartum,
admission postpartum, and
assessment, delivery postpartum follow-up
summary with visits; flow-sheet style
maternal and and forms-based
neonatal items charting available for
newborn and
maternal patients

Predefined Perinatal Excellence

annotation list is configuration and/or
defined by site user-customizable

No Limited
Yes Yes
Yes Perinatal Excellence
configuration and/or
user-customizable

Yes User-customized

Yes Perinatal Excellence

configuration and/or
user-customizable

Yes Native smartphone

and tablet access
over cell phone data
networks
Yes User-customized

On-call board Customizable

chalkboard and NST
test

Intel-based VMware or dedicated

client/server hardware with
published
performance
specifications

Windows Windows 7, Server

2000/2003/XP client 2008 R2

Objectivity Sybase SQL

HD or SAN for Network-based

database, Optical storage locations
WORM or Centera (NAS, SAN, others)
for archives
100 GB NA

TCP/IP, Ethernet, 10BaseT, 100BaseT,

MSMQ 1000BaseT, TCP/IP

Client/server Client/server
100 MB switched Twisted pair (UTP),
Ethernet VLAN CAT5/6

Automatic at set time Automatic at end of

after discharge episode

User ID and Logon, password,

password, user group audit trail, user-role
access defines based
permissions

Yes Yes
Inkjet, laser Customer supplied
8.5" x 11" paper or 8" x 11", A4 single
compressed for fetal sheet, larger size
tracing, supports available, print to fax
duplex printing or PDF available

Not specified Varies, typically 1 per

year
Included with Included in support
software and upgrade costs
maintenance

As needed Varies, 2-3 per year

Not specified Not specified

Training of Computer based; on-

administrators and site clinical specialty
train-the-trainer training by OB
approach for end nurses; T3 and
users customized training
for each installation;
biomed support
training center with
classroom training

1 hr, average is <10 4-24 hr, depends on

min contract

24/7/365 24/7
Yes Yes
24/7/365 Via Philips remote
support network
1994 1996
>100 >2,000
90 days 8-12 weeks

$10,000-100,000, Priced according to

dependent upon number of births
facility
requirements<1>
1 year, software 90 days media
replacement

Not specified Varies

April to March January to December

None specified Virtualization of

servers and clients
Real-time decision Comprehensive
support for labor Philips configured
management standards-based
includes CALM Curve screens, reports and
evidence-based stats; mobile-device
dynamic labor curve based access;
for assessing support for triplet
progress and monitoring via Avalon
dystocia; CALM FMs and data buffers
Patterns identifies with multiple patient
and labels upload upon network
accelerations, connection with
decelerations by type Avalon.
and baseline; CALM
Shoulder Screen
evidence-based tool
to identify patients at
higher risk for
shoulder dystocia.

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