Eliminating the Alarm Fatigue to Help Hospitals Reach Historically-inaccessible Productivity Levels

Nihon Kohden, a global leader in medical device innovation for high-precision patient monitoring and diagnostics, has officially announced the launch of its latest innovation, AlarmSense™, which happens to be an advanced, data-driven analytics solution, geared towards intelligently streamlining hospital response management and combating widespread alarm fatigue.

To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account how nurses currently spend more than one-third of their shift responding to signals, making up around 35% of their time. Turning this even bigger of a problem would be the fact that 99% of the given alarms don’t even require clinical intervention.

Hence, such constant interruptions, like you can guess, not only worsen the quality of care in the case of patients, but also contribute towards burnout, turnover, and reduced patient satisfaction. For better understanding, even a 1% rise in staff turnover cost hospitals an estimated $260,000 annually.

Against that, AlarmSense arrives on the scene bearing an ability to flip raw alarm data for actionable intelligence, spanning from hospital-wide patterns down to individual patient insights.

More on the same would reveal how Nihon’s latest brainchild can seamlessly track notifications across multiple units. You see, the innovation can analyze up to 90 days of trends, and at the same time, adjust for outliers caused by high-risk patients.

As a result, it empowers clinicians in the context of accessing clarity amidst all the noise. AlarmSense can also be expected to provide the scalability and reliability hospitals need to eliminate guesswork, reduce unnecessary interruptions, and create a sustainable, data-driven approach to alarm management.

“AlarmSense represents more than a technology launch—it’s a response to what clinicians have consistently told us they need,” said Roy Sakai, President of Nihon Kohden America, LLC. “By embedding their feedback directly into the design, we’ve created a solution that cuts through the noise, strengthens patient safety and supports staff well-being. It’s about helping health systems modernize care in ways that are both clinically meaningful and sustainable.”

Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the promise of optimizing alarms. This translates to how users can simulate alarm changes using historical data, thus doing away with the need to guess and check.

Next up, there is a facility in place to normalize data, which stems from deeper, more accurate view, besting traditional 30–60-day view solutions to enable longer-term strategy improvements.

Another detail worth a mention is rooted in potential for enhancing clinical workflows. Leveraging graphical dashboards and categorization (clinical, technical, etc.), the solution in question should be able to help teams seamlessly tailor response strategies.

Rounding up highlights would be the focus on improving staff well-being through data-driven recommendations that can lessen fatigue, scale up nurse satisfaction, and cut down on burnout risks.

Founded in 1951, Nihon Kohden’s stature today can be better understood once you consider it is the largest supplier of electroencephalography products worldwide. The company’s excellence in what it does can be further contextualized once you consider it is providing its products, at present, in more than 120 countries.

“Alarm fatigue is not just an operational issue—it’s a daily strain that takes clinicians away from patients,” said Emily Sego, Clinical Healthcare Executive at Nihon Kohden America. “Our teams worked hand-in-hand with nurses and frontline staff whose voices shaped every stage of AlarmSense’s development. The result is a solution designed around their realities—one that turns overwhelming alerts into actionable insights, reduces distractions and helps them stay focused on delivering the best care possible.”

• By Editorial Panel
• 07 Sep 2025