AirStrip Technologies, a company specializing in mobile medical software applications, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its Remote Patient Monitoring solution (RPM), including AirStrip RPM CRITICAL CARE and AirStrip RPM CARDIOLOGY.

With this clearance, AirStrip now expects to expand the reach of its virtual real time remote patient monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings, which include the intensive care unit, the emergency department, the operating room, the neonatal ICU, and virtually any other care environment. 

"With FDA clearance of the AirStrip RPM CRITICAL CARE and CARDIOLOGY solution, AirStrip has taken a giant step forward in an effort to improve patient safety, strengthen communication between medical professionals and affect better outcomes through the use of a growing suite of AirStrip solutions on mobile platforms," Cameron Powell, president and chief medical officer at AirStrip Technologies said.

 "There are times when the physician simply cannot be at the bedside. However, with the AirStrip RPM solution, multiple patients can be monitored virtually anywhere, anytime," Powell added.

The AirStrip RPM solution is designed to enable clinicians with unprecedented remote access to critical patient data in virtual real time. Medical professionals can use their smartphones to see vital signs, critical waveform data and other clinical information, which can then be sent directly from the hospital and can be accessed from virtually anywhere a cell-phone or other wireless connection is available.

AirStrip Technologies released its first remote patient monitoring solution, AirStrip OB, in 2006. The AirStrip RPM solution delivers easy-to-use, standards-based, secure and intuitive mobile applications. 

Initially developed for the Apple iPhone (News - Alert) operating system, the AirStrip RPM CRITICAL CARE and CARDIOLOGY solutions will now be available to medical professionals who use the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, iPod touch, and the iPad. The company is also planning to make this available for other brands shortly.

"The full potential of the AirStrip software development platform is being realized in our technical ability to leverage all that we have learned and accomplished with AirStrip OB into much broader clinical settings including the critical care and cardiology environments,” Trey Moore, chief technology officer at AirStrip Technologies said.