Bedside Equipment Alarm Monitoring System (BEAMS)

Bedside Equipment Alarm Monitoring System (BEAMS) is the only acoustic monitoring system for all critical patient bedside alarms. This multi award winning UK manufactured system, detects the tonal sounds from device alarms, alerting ward staff in spoken native language & visual notifications as to the location, device and alarm type sounding. Unlike other medical device monitoring systems, BEAMS will work with device alarms from any manufacturer. Improvements in patient safety are central to this innovation as BEAMS ensures that medical device alarms never go unheard, even behind closed doors of single occupancy rooms. BEAMS can be installed in single patient rooms, multi-bed bays, communal areas (e.g. playrooms) and private patient homes for palliative care. Overview video: https://youtu.be/-Lbopbc1Yds Data shows that BEAMS can reduce response times to bedside medical device alarms by up to 92%. Users of BEAMS report significant efficiency savings in hospital ward staff time and quieter ward environments. BEAMS provides daily, weekly and monthly data reports (no patient or healthcare professional data is collected) detailing what alarms were sounding at any given time providing governance insight of ward strain, demonstrating response times to alarms and generating data for complaints management and quality improvement planning.