Via Business Wire

Designation Enables Premier’s 4,350 U.S. Hospitals to Access Exclusive Pricing for CalmWave’s Platform that Eliminates Non-Actionable Alarms in ICUs 

Seattle, July 11, 2024 – CalmWave, the leader in eliminating non-actionable alarms through data science and Transparent AI, has been awarded a Breakthrough Technology agreement with Premier, Inc., a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company. Premier offers Breakthrough Innovation Technology designations to innovations that deliver a major advantage in terms of patient safety, clinical outcomes, and operational efficiencies. 

CalmWave’s recognition includes a single source designation as it is the only company in the Premier catalog that directly addresses ICU alarm fatigue. As part of the Breakthrough Technology agreement, Premier’s 4,350 U.S. hospitals have the opportunity to purchase CalmWave’s Hospital Operations Platform at exclusive pricing.

CalmWave harnesses Transparent AI to build trust with clinicians and streamline hospital Operations Health, starting with reducing alarm fatigue and objectively improving staff well-being. The platform integrates with core hospital IT systems and aggregates and analyzes vast data sources, providing actionable insights for improved patient care and operational efficiency. Recognized for their innovation in creating quiet ICU environments, CalmWave is transforming healthcare through technology to support bedside medical staff, patients, and family members.

“The problem of alarm fatigue has serious consequences for patients and clinicians in the ICU. We are grateful for Premier’s recognition of our solution as a breakthrough innovation, especially as the only solution for this significant problem,” said Ophir Ronen, Founder and CEO, CalmWave. “We look forward to serving the hospitals in their system, which in practical terms means we will finally make ICUs across the country quieter. This marks an enormous step forward in improving nurse retention in ICUs.”

Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 4,350 U.S. hospitals and 300,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting, and other services, Premier enables better patient care and outcomes at a lower cost.

About CalmWave

CalmWave’s mission is to improve the lives of patients and providers, starting with eliminating non-actionable alarms for a more stable and quiet ICU. Alarm fatigue, endemic in the modern healthcare system, causes great stress for providers, patients, and their families, detrimentally impacting patient outcomes and staff attrition. The CalmWave platform remediates alarm fatigue, improves staff retention, and transforms Operations Health through data science and Transparent AI. CalmWave was recognized with the prestigious “Health Innovation of the Year” at the 2024 GeekWire Awards, following its 2023 win, “UX Design of the Year”. CalmWave is the fastest company to go from inception to funding at the AI2 Incubator, a startup incubator at the Allen Institute for AI. 

Headquartered in Seattle, CalmWave investors include Bonfire Ventures, Tau Ventures, AI2 Incubator, SeaChange Ventures, Hike Ventures, and the co-founders of PagerDuty. Follow us on LinkedIn and X.