What You Should Know
- Clinical collaboration operating platform TigerConnect announced the official commercial launch of its Smart Room Suite, uniting bedside medical hardware, clinical communication, nurse call, and digital patient engagement into a unified operating layer.
- The technology targets a critical patient safety hazard: systematic reviews demonstrate that 74% to 99% of hospital bedside monitor alarms require zero clinical action, contributing directly to nurse cognitive overload, desensitization, and life-threatening alarm fatigue.
- The platform converges interactive patient room hardware, intelligent nurse call, cloud-native medical alarm routing, real-time location services, and virtual care integration into a unified bedside operating environment.
- Designed to eliminate sensory noise and automate clinical coordination, the system connects directly with core hospital infrastructure—including Epic EHR—and embeds TigerConnect’s FDA 510(k)-cleared alarm management engine to ensure that filtered, actionable alerts reach the appropriate clinician without manual triage.
Inpatient Proof Point: Reclaiming 12,500 Nursing Hours at Lee Health
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QqfShtrWSCk?si=7HXyP4_TJrAVQ0pr" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>The clinical and operational efficacy of the Smart Room Suite has already been validated in a high-acuity inpatient setting at Lee Health’s Golisano Children’s Hospital in Fort Myers, Florida.
Lee Health modernized all 135 patient beds, including the hospital’s entire 70-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), executing the full technical deployment while the unit operated above capacity:
- Quantifiable Labor Recovery: The deployment reclaimed nearly 12,500 nursing hours annually across the hospital, translating to approximately $800,000 in redirected nursing capacity.
- Automated Epic EHR Whiteboard Sync: In-room digital whiteboards that automatically pull care team assignments, clinical goals, dietary restrictions, and scheduled procedures directly from Epic accounted for more than 8,200 recovered nursing hours per year, eliminating manual dry-erase updates at shift changes.
- Standardized In-Room Patient Education: Delivering interactive education modules directly through the bedside television—integrated with clinical documentation—returned an additional 4,250 nursing hours annually.
- Next-Stage Clinical Expansion: Building on the NICU’s initial success, Lee Health is preparing to deploy integrated in-room meal ordering tied to dietary EHR orders, automated patient education verification within the chart, and virtual bedside rounding that brings remote family members directly into multidisciplinary clinical rounds.
“We built Smart Room Suite so the room itself can become a member of the care team, sensing its environment and activating the right response,” said Dr. Peter Stetson, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at TigerConnect. “That’s what it means for those systems to work as one instead of staying disconnected. Care teams get their focus back, and patients get faster, safer care.”
