To say that healthcare has evolved or improved would be an understatement. Assisted by technology and fuelled by severe competition, healthcare providers are always trying to improve when it comes to providing services to patients. Patient-care itself has come a long way. It is no more restricted to a smiling doctor and a caring nurse who pen down the required medicines and administer them but has become more personalized.
The patients, as customers, have become more demanding and aware of their requirements and rights. As such, it has become pivotal for the healthcare providers to be aligned with the patient requirement and cater to it quickly and efficiently. And to serve the patients in the best possible manner, they are looking up to technology as brothers-in-arms.
Technology too has reciprocated to the needs of the healthcare industry in the form of digital solutions devised by passionate companies like General Devices which combines speed, simplicity, and reliability to improve the industry’s preparedness and provide smarter patient care.
General Devices (GD) enables smarter patient care by empowering hospitals, EMS, mobile integrated healthcare, community paramedicine, and public safety responders. It does so with the help of most comprehensive, interactive, configurable, affordable and integrated medical team communication and mobile telemedicine solutions.
GD has built and expanded its dominance in the EMS-hospital communications and mobile telemedicine markets through Responsive Innovation – a core value. This value defines GD as it responds to the changing needs of the industry with innovative solutions that are well-designed and simple to use for the benefit of the public, communities, responders and care providers alike.
Solutions that Empower
General Devices entered the medical devices market in 1979 with ECG diagnostic information transmitters and ECG testing units. Encompassing a passion to improve the health and well-being of the public at large through EMS-hospital communications, GD innovated the industry in 1990 and remains its core market. It mostly caters to hospital customers, over 500, and leverages exceptional in-house customer support, engineering and manufacturing teams to keep the momentum.
Offering benefits unmatched in the industry including enhanced workflows, minimized risks, reduced costs and improved patient outcomes. Product innovations include:
CAREpoint™ Workstation – used by hospital emergency departments to manage all EMS-hospital communications on a single interoperable, easy-to-use device;
e-Bridge™ Mobile Telemedicine apps – it enables the sharing of real-time, HIPAA-secure voice, texts, photos, videos and streaming videos from smartphones, tablets, and PCs between EMS, mobile integrated health-community paramedicine, hospitals, and public safety entities.
The company today supports roughly 15,000 emergency patients daily and has solutions installed in over 500 hospital regions. It has been recognized and awarded as:
- Multi-year finalist and winner of the EMS-World Innovation Award (including 2019)
- In 2019 it won: APPY Awards, NJ Digi Tech Award
- In 2018 it won: fast 50, future 50, NJMEP
Exemplifying Leadership
Curt Bashford, the CEO has been a part of General Devices since 1986. He is a former EMT from New Jersey and a graduate of NJIT with degrees in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering. He has been a thought leader in the emergency care world since the 90s and continues to be so today across the spectrum of current and future topics. He is also the architect of pioneering applications for telehealth including the GD CAREpoint and GD e-Bridge.
Apart from developing HealthTech solutions, Curt and his team at GD also sponsors and speaks at key events to be consistent in the awareness regarding topics, including but not limited to: public safety communications, emergency acute care management, reduction of patient handoff time, Mobile Telemedicine, etc.
Beholding a Revolutionary Future
Telemedicine and Telehealth are considered disruptive technologies. They are sparking a change in the way healthcare has traditionally been provided. To EMS, change is slow but not uncommon. Pulse oximetry, 12-lead ECGs and defibrillation—now mainstream—were all once disruptive technologies. To the general public, these seemingly simple telemedicine tasks are intuitively expected in the smartphone age.
General Devices has embraced mobile telemedicine and telehealth to the core as it continues to push the envelope with next generation communications and mobile solutions with an eye to the future. The company believes that Digital medicine and GD are already prepared to wait for the healthcare evolutionary steps that are upon the world. The industry is moving towards consolidation, standardization, and performing the right care at the right place at the right time. General Devices, with a core focus on ease of use, flexibility, and implementation, will continue to offer the most comprehensive solutions that the industry will require.
Exhibiting Excellence
“GD e-Bridge lives up to its name by helping create communication bridges between the different silos in our health system. It has given us a platform where EMS, the Emergency Department, and the Cath Lab can all collaborate with the same patient information and work together to move the patient to the cath lab faster than we have ever seen before. The app really shines when Paramedics in the field start the case and the whole team can receive a real time GPS based ETA, patient demographics, and EKGs before the patient is even loaded into the ambulance.”– Baystate Medical Center, MA
“It is an excellent communication tool between pre-hospital personnel and the emergency department. It allows emergency departments to prepare for critical patients arriving, which can be life-saving.” – Banner Ironwood Medical Center, AZ
For further information about the services, visit www.general-devices.com
