Lantronix Supports Medical Informatics Corp. in Development of Sickbay IoT Solution

Case Study: Lantronix xDirect Server

IRVINE, Calif., April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lantronix Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of Software as a Service (SaaS), connectivity services, engineering services, intelligent hardware and turnkey solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Remote Environment Management (REM), today announced that its xDirect Server was used in the development of Medical Informatics Corp.’s (MIC) Sickbay solution, a single, FDA-cleared virtual care and analytics platform. Sickbay transforms data into actionable information to help patient care teams make better, faster decisions and save lives.

MIC chose Lantronix’s xDirect server to provide secure, remote connectivity for its Sickbay solution. “Lantronix’s xDirect Server provides the secure integration of waveform and other patient data needed from non-networked devices such as ventilator data needed to enable flexible and scalable software-based virtual ICUs and other inpatient command centers, remote monitoring from home and other locations and the development and deployment of patient-centered AI at scale,” said Heather Hitchcock, Chief Marketing Officer of MIC. “Using Lantronix xDirect Server, we are helping hospitals unlock data that has never before been available to support a new standard of data-driven care.”

MIC’s Sickbay solution collects patient data from the bedside and transforms it into Web-based apps. Designed to enable data-driven medicine and patient-centered care, Sickbay is the only FDA-cleared, vendor-neutral, SaaS-based virtual care and analytics platform originally created for hospital ICUs with the ability to rapidly scale across the entire healthcare enterprise. Sickbay enables members of the healthcare team to provide care from command centers, homes, offices and other locations to not only decrease exposure in ICU rooms in the short term but also to enable a new standard of care delivery through software-based remote monitoring from any location.

Challenge: Enable Secure, Remote Patient Monitoring and Flexible, Scalable vICUs

Today, most non-networked medical devices, such as ventilators, pulse oximeters, anesthesia machines and other patient monitoring devices, only provide information at the bedside. Even though they have limited (or no) data storage, these devices have serial ports capable of sending data to other downstream systems. To accomplish this goal, MIC needed secure connectivity between a major manufacturer’s switch devices and the patients’ bedside monitors.