CalmWave® Launches First of Its Kind Clinical Engineering Solution to Advance Patient Safety and Operational Efficiency

New Alarm Insights Solution for CalmWave’s Hospital Operations Platform Empowers Clinical Engineering Teams With Near Real Time Visibility into Technical Alarms

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CalmWave, creator of the Calm ICU™ and leader in eliminating non-actionable alarms through healthcare data science and Transparent AI, today announced the launch of Alarm Insights, a new solution that gives clinical engineering teams real-time visibility into bedside monitor technical alarms. The application enables proactive device management, improves operational efficiency, and enhances patient safety across hospital systems.

Clinical engineering teams are critical to hospital operations, responsible for maintaining the reliability and performance of life-saving equipment. Yet in many health systems, these teams operate with limited insight into technical alarm behavior, device usage, and patient context. Alarm Insights closes this gap by surfacing issues such as recurring malfunctions, alarm floods, failing sensors, and device degradation. Clinical engineering teams can now track alarm behavior at the bed, unit, and hospital level, surfacing insights and patterns that have historically remained invisible.

“Hospitals have spent decades trying to quiet the noise for patients and clinicians, but they’ve ignored a massive part of the problem: technical alarms that no one can see. Alarm Insights changes that,” said Ophir Ronen, Founder and CEO, CalmWave. “For the first time, clinical engineering teams have actionable visibility into device behavior across their systems so they can intervene earlier, prevent failures, and protect patients and staff. This is the start of a foundational shift in how hospitals are managed.”

“We had minimal insight into which devices were breaking down or misfiring alarms,” Ryan Sanders, AVP of Biomedical Engineering, Wellstar Health System. “Now, with CalmWave, we know what room, what patient, what device, and we fix it before it becomes a safety risk. That kind of real-time visibility didn’t exist for us before. It's a game-changer for biomed.”

CalmWave Alarm Insights enables:

• Real time fleet visibility: See technical alarms, device faults, probe issues, and module health across vendors and locations.
• Alarm flood detection: Identify alarm storms, noisy rooms, and upstream causes that erode nurse trust and delay response.
• Degradation and drift detection: Spot failing sensors and devices trending out of normal, then prioritize the right work orders.
• Operational context: Correlate alarms with unit and patient context to focus efforts where risk is highest.
• Vendor-neutral foundation: Integrates with leading electronic health record (EHR) and device monitoring systems, fused and structured into a comprehensive and system-wide data foundation.

Alarm Insights is powered by CalmWave’s Transparent AI, a proprietary approach that makes the data and reasoning behind every recommendation visible, actionable, and auditable. By ingesting high-frequency data from medical devices and EHRs, the platform surfaces patterns that would otherwise remain hidden, enabling teams to prioritize interventions, prevent failures, and contribute directly to safer, more efficient care. During operations with the Wellstar Health System in Georgia, CalmWave reduced non-actionable ICU alarms by 58% in 30 days, supporting faster responses, fewer device-related disruptions, and improved nurse satisfaction.

With the launch of Alarm Insights, clinical engineering can move from reactive to proactive operations, resulting in fewer equipment related disruptions, greater coordination, and improved hospital-wide performance. By turning technical alarm data into actionable insights, CalmWave positions clinical engineering as a critical operational backbone for hospital safety, reliability, and performance.

About CalmWave

CalmWave's mission is to objectively improve healthcare, starting with safely eliminating non-actionable alarms. Alarms triggered by bedside monitoring systems that do not require immediate intervention or clinical response comprise 80-99% of all audible alarms in intensive care units (ICUs). They contribute to a well-recognized and widespread issue known as alarm fatigue, endemic to every hospital worldwide. Alarm fatigue, rampant in the modern healthcare system, causes great stress for clinicians and patients, ultimately impacting patient outcomes and staff retention. Using Transparent AI, CalmWave outlines the rationale behind each optimized setting, empowering a hospital’s clinical staff to evaluate and implement optimized alarm limit recommendations in the bedside monitor at the patient’s bedside using the CalmWave Operations Platform, which integrates seamlessly with the hospital’s EMR and medical device middleware systems. Doing so remediates alarm fatigue and can improve staff retention and patient outcomes. Visit CalmWave.ai for more information and follow us on LinkedIn and X.