Monica DK - Introduction

The 'standard' Monica AN24 does not provide access to the 'raw' electrophysiological signal. This means that 'research' on true beat to beat variability, both maternal and fetal, fECG morphology, accessing the EHG signal and the different frequency signals that characterises uterine activity (offering the potential to identify pre-term labour), fetal position and movement and user defined FHR analysis are not available with the standard unit.

The Monica DK is a suite of three applications on an installation CD:

• A firmware update for the Monica AN24 that will allow the raw electrophysiological signal to be stored on the internal SD card. This is serial number specific.
• A special upload program that allows users to upload the raw data files typically 700MB!
• A compressive analysis program that allows the user to extract a number of unique parameters and features including, beat to beat RR intervals, fECG morphology, EHG data, fetal position and movement.

Monica DK provides research workers with the opportunity to do new and exciting work that could lead to the development of new diagnostic parameters and management strategies. Monica Healthcare can only provide the Monica DK when an IP/Collaboration agreement is in place with the Hospital, so that ownership of the foreground and background IP, publications, patents and royalties are clearly understood by both parties. The IP/Collaboration agreement is not onerous and Monica Healthcare has signed numerous agreements with all the early adopters, since it protects the interests of both parties.