CCN Health Adds Pulse Oximetry and Temperature Monitoring

CCN Health Adds Pulse Oximetry and Temperature Monitoring

LOS ANGELES, CA — July 10, 2024 — CCN Health today announced the addition of pulse oximetry and temperature monitoring to its remote patient monitoring device portfolio. The new device categories expand the range of physiological data available to clinical teams and support targeted monitoring protocols for respiratory conditions, post-acute recovery, and infection surveillance.

Clinical Use Cases

Pulse oximetry measures blood oxygen saturation and pulse rate, two metrics that are foundational to managing patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, and other conditions that affect oxygenation. For patients recovering from COVID-19 or pneumonia, continuous SpO2 tracking provides early warning of respiratory deterioration that may not be apparent from symptom reporting alone.

Temperature monitoring adds a vital sign that is particularly valuable in congregate living environments where early detection of infection can prevent facility-wide outbreaks. Trending body temperature data over time allows clinical teams to identify febrile patterns before they escalate, triggering isolation and treatment protocols earlier in the clinical course.

Both device types connect to the CCN Health platform via cellular gateways, transmitting readings automatically without requiring Wi-Fi infrastructure or patient-initiated data syncing.

Expanding the Device Ecosystem

With pulse oximetry and temperature now available, CCN Health's device portfolio spans seven monitoring categories: blood pressure, weight, glucose, continuous glucose monitoring, pulse oximetry, temperature, and contactless radar-based monitoring. This breadth allows providers to construct multi-vital monitoring plans tailored to each patient's condition profile.

A patient with COPD and hypertension, for example, can be monitored simultaneously with a pulse oximeter and blood pressure cuff, with both data streams feeding into the same clinical dashboard. Alert thresholds and escalation rules can be configured independently for each vital sign while maintaining a unified view of the patient's overall status.

Complementing Existing Monitoring

The addition of SpO2 and temperature data creates new clinical correlations within the platform. A concurrent drop in oxygen saturation and rise in temperature may indicate a respiratory infection, prompting a different clinical response than either reading in isolation. The platform's trend analysis engine evaluates these cross-vital patterns and surfaces them to clinical teams as part of the alert prioritization workflow.

"Every vital sign we add to the platform gives our clinical teams another dimension of patient data to work with," said Cosmo Cochrane, Co-Founder of CCN Health. "Pulse oximetry and temperature fill gaps that our partners have been asking about, particularly for respiratory patients and infection monitoring in senior living."

Availability

Pulse oximetry and temperature monitoring devices are available now to all CCN Health partners and can be added to existing patient monitoring plans through the standard device provisioning process.

About CCN Health

CCN Health is a remote patient monitoring and chronic care management platform serving senior living, skilled nursing, and physician practice markets. The platform integrates with leading EHR systems to deliver automated data exchange across five Medicare programs: RPM, CCM, PCM, BHI, and RTM.