NIHON KOHDEN Vitrac app from the Apple's App store

Category: 日本光電 Life Scope patient monitors networking




In this article we reviewed the Vitrac app which is downloadable from the Apple's App store.
 




The Unified Gateway (QP-988P) is a gateway program allowing ios devices to access a real-time patient monitoring network with links to Life Scope patient monitors and central nurse stations installed in a hospital. As only the central monitors are equipped to respond to remote access commands, remote interaction with the patient monitors is not possible.
 
Users using a iPad or iPhone can download the ViTrac app from Apple's App store to access any installed Unified Gateway IIS Web Server. A demonstration mode is available to better evaluate its usefulness.

The software program must be installed using a stand-alone server PC unit (and not inside the PC unit of the Central Nurse Station), incurring a higher cost to provide the connectivity compared to competitors (in addition to space requirement).

 
The above image shows how remote ios devices can access the Unified Gateway Server through the Internet. The Unified Gateway PC Server has a separate network link to the real time patient monitoring network which has the Central Nurse Station. 
 
To protect the Central Nurse Station from unauthorized access, dialing in using a VPN router is mandatory.
 
Note the Vitrac app is only available for the Apple iOS but not the Android operating system.