Visual Patient Avatar

Studies indicate that care providers can only directly look at a monitor about 5% of the time³. Visual Patient helps care providers to see colors and movements in their peripheral view without looking directly at the monitor. This enables the physician to continue to observe the surgical field while still perceiving relevant information from the monitor. By activating peripheral vision we’re activating an entirely new connection to the monitor and patient.

Philips Virtual Patient Avatar is designed for use in the operating room and supports all clinical skill levels. It translates numerical vital signs data into an avatar using color, shape and animation and helps you distinguish between stable and dynamically changing conditions, so you can act before parameter alarming sets in. Virtual Patient Avatar features a simple, functional, innovative design, for one-glance holistic recognition of significant changes in patient status.

Flying a plane and caring for a patient involve continuous evaluation of critical data. Inspired by synthetic vision in aviation, the Visual Patient Avatar was originally developed by a team of licensed pilots and anesthesiologists who saw the similarities of the cockpit and the OR and sought to bring these concepts into the fast-paced operating room.