Your browser is out of date

With an updated browser, you will have a better Medtronic website experience. Update my browser now.

×

Skip to main content
FOCUSON for Cardiology

FOCUSON™ MONITORING AND TRIAGING SERVICE

Save time whilst enabling better outcomes

Request a Demo
Alert Indications, Safety, and Warnings

WHY FOCUSON™?

In today’s healthcare environment, the quality and efficiency of follow-up care is one of the biggest challenges organisations face on a daily basis.

Patient icon

GROWING DATA AND PATIENTS

  • Increasing number of patients to be followed-up1
  • Amount of data
    to be reviewed
    is growing


Challenges Icon

ORGANISATIONAL CHALLENGES 

  • Limited resources2
  • Need for efficiency and organisational optimisation3,4

White clock icon

time to Medical Action 

  • Timely data review is critical to ensure optimal medical treatment of clinical events3,4

Gimbel Quote

What is FOCUSON™ ?

FocusOn™ is a monitoring and triaging service designed to help healthcare professionals save time spent reviewing transmissions whilst enabling better outcomes.

Request a Demo

Discover the advantages of FocusOn™
More information (see more) Less information (see less)

FOCUSON™ FREES UP TIME

FOCUSON™  FREES UP TIME

Less time spent on reviewing transmissions with non-actionable data means more time for other relevant activities in a Health Care Professional's workday.

20%

of transmitted data requires clinical action.1,5,6

3H

of data review is saved per patient, per year*7

FOCUSON™ ENABLES BETTER OUTCOMES

FOCUSON™  ENABLES BETTER OUTCOMES

Clinically relevant data is triaged and escalated promptly to hospital clinical teams, allowing patients requiring treatment to be prioritised and treated in a timely manner.

  3X

faster in reviewing transmissions from the moment of receiving them8


  1 DAY

to escalate urgent events8

 

 

A VIRTUAL EXTENSION OF YOUR TEAM

All transmissions are reviewed by two certified ECG and cardiac device specialists supervised by Cardiologists.

The FocusOn™ team triages all incoming CareLink™ transmitted data from all Medtronic cardiac devices according to hospital customisations.

 

 

MORE THAN 1 MILION
TRANSMISSIONS TRIAGED

How FOCUSON™ works

TIMELY, ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

Hospital clinical teams are promptly notified on clinically actionable information, using communications prioritised by color-coding and proactive phone calls for urgent events. Therefore more time can be dedicated to patients that need immediate care.

SAME WORKING DAY

Red events are notified by phone and email*

*Last 2 hours/next working day

NEXT WORKING DAY

Amber events are notified by email

WEEKLY

Green event data is aggregated in one weekly email for efficient review

FOCUSON™ PLATFORM

All FocusOn™ triaged data and transmissions are accessible via the FocusOn™ platform.

Blue computer icon

EASY ACCESS
Combines Carelink™ data with FocusOn™ insights that matter

Blue lock Icon

PRIVACY BY DESIGN
Ensure compliance with data protection legislations

READ A CASE STUDY:

Tampere heart hospital in Finland was struggling with data burden generated by implantable cardiac monitoring. Find out how FocusOn™ helped reduce data review time and increase quality of care for patients.

Download Case Study
Round image hospital
focus on

Struggling with a growing amount of ICM data?

Get a free simulation and find out how much time we could save your clinic.

 

REQUEST DEMO

What our customers say

Animated quote for Remote Monitoring
Animated quote partner in care

Overall excellent service, reduce workload in busy departments

Ireland

Very reliable, it saves us a lot of time

Italy

Listen to what some FocusOn™ users from the UK think about the service
More information (see more) Less information (see less)

Improved service immensely, no issues implementing

Italy

FOCUSON™ FOR Neurology

READ MORE

Medtronic Academy

Access FocusOn™ Monitoring and Triaging service training resources

ACCESS NOW

DISCOVER THE REVEAL LINQTM 
SYSTEM

Find out how the Reveal LINQ™ ICM frees up clinical time with superior efficiency and innovative monitoring solutions.

MORE TIME FOR PATIENT CARE

Learn more

LET'S TALK ABOUT PATIENT MANAGEMENT

Discover our readily available digital health capabilities.

Learn more
Doctor and Patient digital connection

Fill in your details to learn more

*Indicates Required Field

Your information will be processed and protected in accordance with our privacy statement

Selecting “no” to marketing emails above will not affect your other email selections, and a Medtronic representative will still reach out via email, if selected. Your personal data will used to manage your relationship with Medtronic, and, if you consent, to provide you with relevant email updates based on your user preferences. You can opt-out of receiving such emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the relevant email. Medtronic may use pixels and other technologies in emails to gather statistics around email opening and clicks, to help us improve our communications and to provide you with relevant content. For more information, see the Medtronic privacy notice.

You can always change your preferences or update your personal details by visiting the Preference center.

See the Preference center

*

for patients Implanted with Reveal LINQ™ ICM - based on 11.3 minutes per transmission.7

References

1

Cronin et al, 2012, Heart Rhythm, vol 9, n°12

2

Gimbel, 2012, Heart Rhythm, vol 9, n°12

3

Ricci et al, 2013, Europace, 15, i49–i53

4

Varma 2013, Europace,15, 921–923

5

Monitoring center pilot. Medtronic data on file. September 2015

6

Giannola et al, JMIR Cardio 2019;3(2):e9815

7

Seiler A et al. Clinic Time Required for Remote and In-person Management of Cardiac Device Patients: Time and Motion Workflow Evaluation. J Med Int Res, In print, June 2021 Nicolle E, et al. Clinic time required to manage remote monitoring of cardiac implantable electronic devices: impact of outsourcing initial data review and triage. EP Europace. 2021;23(Supplement_3):euab116-519

8

Medtronic Data on File, 2016, Time to review file

9

Medtronic Data on file, May 2020, FocusOn™ User Satisfaction Survey