22/12/2010
Belgian hospital first - monitoring of newborns with Vivotek
Tournai, Belgium
According to Pascal Carette, CEO of Camprotect, the greatest challenge was devising the means to ensure that the correct video stream of each infant in the NICU could be easily routed to the mother’s room in the maternity ward. To this end, Camprotect developed a custom video management program that provides a simple interface that nurses could use to route video accurately.
Here too, the Vivotek cameras proved their worth, says Mr. P. Carette: "The development of the app went quite smoothly thanks to the IP761’s excellent documentation, use of open standards, and clean API (application programming interface). We were able to provide the nurses with a very easy-to-use and trouble-free application." As for video quality, it is excellent, says P. Carette, with mothers delighted of course that they are able to view clear, high-resolution live video of their babies despite having to be physically separated from them.
During the planning and implementation stages, the project had already attracted media interest, with several news articles published in local newspapers and magazines. Once the project was complete and active usage began, it has even been the subject of a TV news report.
The system not only brought the hospital a great deal of extremely favourable publicity, but it has raised patient satisfaction. Another benefit is that it provides an extra level of care for the infants in the NICU, since now even nurses and doctors outside the NICU itself can easily monitor them. All in all, the project has been a resounding success for those involved in its implementation, and for those now benefiting from the crystal-clear video provided by Vivotek’s IP7161 cameras. "This was a feel-good project if there ever was one," concludes P. Carette.