MTN Monitor: Revolutionizing Real-Time Patient Monitoring
A Real-Time Dashboard for Safer, Smarter Care
It’s a busy day in the Emergency Department. Every ED bed is full, and more than 60 patients are in the waiting room. Among them is an elderly man with dementia who presented with abdominal pain, a slightly elevated heart rate and otherwise unremarkable initial vital signs. He has been sitting quietly in the corner of the waiting room with a family member for four hours, gradually deteriorating without anyone realizing it. When his vitals are finally rechecked several hours later, he is found to be in septic shock with multiorgan failure—requiring ICU admission. Earlier recognition and intervention might have prevented both the ICU admission and the progression to critical illness.
Elsewhere, on an acute inpatient psychiatric unit, a woman admitted for grave disability lies in bed overwhelmed by auditory hallucinations commanding her to self-harm. She is alone in the room. During the last vitals check, a nurse noted a mildly elevated heart rate. In this unit, telemetry cords and leads are not permitted due to ligature risk, so vitals can only be obtained intermittently with a portable monitor. The nurse messages the psychiatrist via the electronic health record chat app, who replies that they will evaluate the patient after completing rounds and recommends checking the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol-revise score (CIWA-Ar). The nurse attempts to assess the score but is unable to complete it, as the patient is too distracted by hallucinations to participate. Choosing not to interrupt rounds again, the nurse waits. When the psychiatrist finally arrives at the bedside hours later, the patient is in full-blown delirium tremens—a life-threatening complication of alcohol withdrawal. With earlier detection and treatment, this outcome might have been avoided.
The Challenge of Intermittent Monitoring
These stories are not outliers—they are the everyday reality in clinics and hospitals across the country. Despite the presence of advanced technology, alert systems and electronic health records, clinicians still miss early warning signs of deterioration. The reason is simple: most patient monitoring remains manual, intermittent and isolated in silos—and the consequences can be devastating.
Across healthcare settings, even those with advanced resources, clinicians continue to face blind spots that compromise care. The most common and dangerous among these is missed deterioration, particularly when vital signs are only checked intermittently. The burden of excessive documentation further pulls providers away from bedside care, making it difficult to detect subtle signs of decline in real time. Conditions such as arrhythmias, sepsis, substance /medication withdrawal or agitation may begin with small, imperceptible shifts that go unnoticed until they become critical. These challenges are exacerbated by fragmented systems that trap data in silos, hindering a holistic view of patient status.
MTN Monitor: A Breakthrough in Wearable Health Technology
That’s where MTN Monitor comes in. Designed as a continuous, intelligent monitoring platform, MTN Monitor transforms real-time biometric data—captured through wearable devices—into meaningful, actionable clinical insights. This system sets a new standard for proactive patient safety and efficient clinical workflows.
MTN Monitor enables continuous monitoring via wearable health technology that streams real-time data such as:
Temperature
Heart rate
Oxygen saturation
Respiratory rate
Sleep patterns
Activity, extremity movement
Location
This stream of data is analyzed using AI-driven healthcare solutions that prioritize alerts based on both urgency and clinical relevance—helping to reduce alarm fatigue while ensuring that actionable signals reach the right staff at the right time.
Integration and Flexibility
MTN Monitor can operate as a standalone tool or integrate directly with electronic health records, enriching existing documentation with location-aware context and automated updates.
One of MTN Monitor’s most compelling strengths is its adaptability through a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model. Facilities can tailor their hardware strategy to fit clinical and financial realities. Re-usable consumer wearables—such as Samsung Galaxy Watches or Fitbits—offer an affordable way to enable passive monitoring and staff wellness programs. On the other hand, FDA-approved medical-grade devices provide the level of clinical accuracy required for diagnostic decisions and documentation, including integration with billing workflows and EHR systems. This flexibility allows MTN Monitor to support a wide range of use cases without imposing a one-size-fits-all solution.
The Power of Continuous Biometric Data Analysis
At the heart of MTN Monitor is the MTN Data Foundry, a powerful, unified architecture that integrates data from any wearable, EHR, or system into a standardized framework. Rather than overwhelming clinicians with raw data, proprietary algorithms filter out the noise and surface only the most clinically relevant signals. Real-time dashboards, audit trails, and intelligent analytics empower care teams to act quickly and decisively. The system’s infrastructure is engineered to meet the highest standards in healthcare security, ensuring reliability and compliance even under the heavy demands of continuous monitoring.
Ultimately, MTN Monitor redefines what it means to monitor a patient. It's not just about capturing numbers—it's about detecting patterns, understanding context and enabling clinical action before a crisis unfolds.
Sepsis Case Re-visited, equipped with MTN Monitor
Imagine how differently the situation could have unfolded if the elderly gentleman in the waiting room with sepsis had been wearing a device connected to the MTN Monitor platform. As his condition subtly began to deteriorate—his heart rate climbing and temperature trending upward—the system flagged early signs of sepsis. An alert was automatically sent to the care team, prompting a nurse to reassess him promptly and then notify a physician. Within minutes, the patient was assigned a bed, and then IV fluids and antibiotics were administered per sepsis protocol. Because of this timely intervention, the patient stabilized, avoided ICU admission and recovered on the medical floor. MTN Monitor helped turn a potentially life-threatening delay into a textbook example of early detection and standard-of-care treatment.
MTN Monitor empowers clinicians to see sooner, act faster, and care better.
Early-Access Opportunities
The Monitor is in active development, and we are inviting a select group of healthcare organizations to help shape the roadmap. Contact us at info@themtn.ai to start the conversation.