"Think about the fact that both pilots and physicians are dealing with peoples' lives, with mission-critical activities, seeing how different it is from the experience perspective of the pilot getting very reliable assistance, compared to what I as a physician gets from the computer systems, you see how frightening the difference is," he adds. "If I'm comparing that to my time as a physician, practicing in hospitals in very intense environments, and seeing how very little you get reliable assistance from the IT systems, there's a tremendous, overwhelming difference between the two," he says. "For me as a pilot, sitting in a cockpit, whether it was a helicopter or another aircraft, you are completely, 100 percent dependent on the accuracy of the computer system in order to have a safe flight and accomplish your mission," says Ephrat. Simply, put he found the comparison between the decision support tools in the cockpit to those in clinical settings to be rather lacking. The development of medCPU's CDS technology finds its roots in Ephrat's clinical experience, of course – he's an obstetrician – but it was also influenced by his time serving as an Apache helicopter pilot. "Once it identifies a departure from hospital guidelines and protocols, an alert message pops up on the computer screen at the point-of-care informing the clinical staff of such departure and highlighting the hospital’s expected approach in this case," he added. "The centerpiece of medCPU’s technology is the ability to read medical data (including free text notes or dictations) and cross-reference that within our medical database instantaneously. "The system cross references a patient's history, physical findings, and laboratory and radiological data at the same time his or her doctor is assessing and prescribing a course of treatment," said Raymond, in a press statement. Sidney Raymond, MD, the hospital's chief medical information officer, sung the praises of the medCPU system, which aims to bring accurate, real-time data as needed to the patient's bedside. This past May, Metairie, La.-based East Jefferson General Hospital partnered with medCPU for a new clinical decision support system to help its clinicians make the most accurate decisions at the point of care.Īs it worked to prevent adverse patient events such as deep venous thromboembolism, sepsis and stroke, EJGH deployed medCPU technology to help alert physicians and nurses better adhere to clinical protocols and its own treatment guidelines. Want to guess which workplace had the more reliable information system? Through the FlytX product line, Thales is leveraging these crew-centric, compact, customizable and connected assets to deliver the next generation of avionics for helicopters to airframers and operators, today.Before he co-founded clinical decision support developer medCPU, Eyal Ephrat, MD, was a practicing physician. The second is its compactness and high level of integration, through a combination of FlytX’s minimal SWaP (Size, Weight and Power) footprint and a much smaller number of individual line-replaceable components than in previous-generation cockpits.įlytX’s third driver is that it is totally customizable and scalable, allowing airframers to adapt the cockpit to their specific requirements and enabling them to incorporate their own, distinctive signature cockpit features.įinally, FlytX is fully and natively connected, interfacing seamlessly with other aviation players, in the air and on the ground, and able to draw on open-world devices, data and applications in a cyber-secure environment.įor helicopter manufacturers and operators, the FlytX suite of solutions is available in various modular configurations, ranging from single-screen to four-screen displays. The tools available at the pilots’ fingertips are entirely mission-minded, designed for maximum efficiency and capable of incorporating future evolutions. The first is its crew-centric focus, with a cockpit layout and user-friendly touchscreen interfaces that have been designed to ease piloting and reduce workload, all of which in turn enhances safety. The solution, which is now available for installation on board helicopters, is underpinned by four key principles. It is the result of ten years of research, studies, innovation and collaboration between industry players, airlines and operators, pilots and many other functions of various aircraft organizations. 2019 At this year’s HAI Heli-Expo trade show, Thales unveiled the helicopter version of its brand new FlytX cockpit avionics suite, the ultimate in breakthrough crew-centric, compact, customizable, connected technologies.įlytX is the new ready-to-fly linefit and retrofit cockpit avionics suite offering from Thales. FlytX, the ultimate modular cockpit avionics solution, rolls out for all helicopter types
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