Patient monitoring and clinical support built for hospitals in low-resource settings

Identify high-risk patients in real time and respond sooner. IMPALA enables improved decisions and quicker intervention through data, insights, and prioritisation.

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Before IMPALA

- Notice patient deterioration during rounds or coincidentally
- Risk missing critical situations
- Late reactive intervention

After IMPALA

Animation of the ward with IMPALA: alerts direct health workers to patients who are deteriorating

- Alerted the moment a patient begins deteriorating
- Can prioritise critical patients
- Proactive care and quick intervention

What the evidence shows

40–51%

Lower paediatric mortality

45%

Less time on monitoring per day

25.5–47.1

Percentage-point drop in critical illness events

Problem & solution

A mother smiles at her baby, who is receiving oxygen, on a hospital ward

The Challenge

Many hospitals in low-resource settings face significant daily challenges: Too many patients and too few staff; Deteriorating patients not identified until it is too late; Medical equipment that is difficult to maintain; Nurses working under constant pressure.

These realities place enormous strain on healthcare systems and the professionals who sustain them. We exist to help healthcare teams overcome these challenges and deliver safer, higher quality care.

The Solution

We developed IMPALA in close collaboration with our partners in Malawi and Rwanda to address these critical challenges. The IMPALA solution supports healthcare teams by reducing workload and improving patient oversight.

By providing real-time insights and early warnings, IMPALA enables health workers to deliver better care and manage patients more efficiently, without increasing their workload.

IMPALA Monitor mounted on a hospital wall, showing a patient's vital signs

What is IMPALA?

IMPALA is a ward-level monitoring and clinical support solution that helps health workers detect patient deterioration earlier and manage care more proactively. IMPALA has 3 components.

IMPALA Monitor screen showing a patient's heart rate, oxygen saturation and other vital signs

01 IMPALA Monitor

The IMPALA Monitor is a fit-for-context continuous multi-parameter vital sign patient monitor that supports health workers in low-resource settings and, thanks to its user-friendly design, is quick to learn.

Health worker using the IMPALA tablet's central overview of patients' vital signs

02 IMPALA Platform

A Central Patient Overview, Clinical Support App and Data Dashboard that enables healthcare workers in low-resource health settings to monitor and prioritise patient care.

Fitting an IMPALA Monitor bracket to a drip stand

03 IMPALA Care

IMPALA Care ensures sustainability over time with support and training ensuring high performance and sustainable work.

What health workers say

A. Bengo

Working as a medical officer in one busy pediatric ward; the IMPALA monitors make my work tremendously easy. I have most of the vital signs for some of the very sick patients readily available from the monitors. This has reduced the amount of time we spend getting vital signs and has improved the quality of the care we give.
A. Bengo - Malawian Medical Officer

J. Chikwana

Now with the monitors we have a lot less patients that bounce back and forth between HDU and the general ward after stopping treatment because the monitors help us with de-escalation of care and monitor patients if they keep doing well after stopping treatment.
J. Chikwana - Pediatrician Zomba central hospital, Malawi

M. Katuma

We didn’t have enough monitors in the ward. The coming in of the monitors has really improved in our care for patients. It helps us in fast assessment of children and recognizes early if patients are improving or deteriorating for prompt management.
M. Katuma - Malawian Nursing Officer

T.A. Likumbo

Since the advent of the IMPALA monitoring system in our setting, we have had a lot of timely interventions done on children that were deteriorating. The monitoring system is efficient and time saving on this life saving journey!
T.A. Likumbo- Malawian Nursing Officer