AI in Labor and Delivery
Obstetric Command Centers
Promote situational awareness with a scalable solution that detects concerning trends in fetal or maternal status across your enterprise in near-real time.
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We’re not looking over your shoulder — we’ve got your back
Obstetric command centers provide an extra level of clinical oversight by partnering with bedside teams across the health system to help promote situational awareness, standardized communication, and focused clinical attention where it matters most.
How We Help You
An additional layer of system-wide protection
Empower experienced staff to prioritize the detection of early warning signs for both mom and baby during childbirth.
Work from a remote location
Support L&D, antepartum, and postpartum units remotely — whether from across the hall or across town.
Leverage in-house experts
Empower experienced staff to monitor, assess, and escalate emerging concerns.
Address human factors
Promote situational awareness with functionalities designed to minimize risks tied to distraction, tunnel vision, and normalization of deviance.
Promote consistency across every shift
Enable standardized responses across shifts and care teams, regardless of experience level.
Reinforce compliance
Support the adherence of OB documentation to health system policies.
How It Works
Powered by PeriWatch Vigilance®
Command centers use our advanced fetal and maternal early warning system to continuously monitor data from the EMR and your existing central monitoring system to notify clinicians when maternal vital signs, fetal heart rate patterns, or labor progress exceed hospital-defined safety thresholds — promoting improved quality and safety system-wide.
Flexible deployment options for your L&D units
Whether you’re monitoring one facility or many, our software can scale to fit your organization. Our specialists are ready to help you explore which model may be the best fit for your clinical goals.
Facility command center
Create a simplified command‑center experience accessible from a specific area within a facility.
Enterprise command center
Monitor patients system-wide from a centralized location.
Hybrid deployment
Implement Vigilance at the bedside and through an enterprise command center.
On-Demand Webinar
Improving Patient Safety with an Obstetric Command Center
Discover how the command center at OhioHealth is helping to define a new standard of care, prevent adverse events, and protect against costly litigation.
Related Solutions
Extend the reach of your clinical vigilance
Learn how our advanced perinatal software solutions can work together to help you protect the mothers and babies in your care.
PeriWatch Surveillance™
Monitor labor and delivery units with powerful centralized fetal surveillance and intuitive documentation workflows designed to support quality patient care.
Vigilance Mobile App
Access your early warning system, clinical decision support tools, and patient tracings directly from your mobile device.
Quality Reports
Track performance and quality measures with detailed reports designed to inform safety initiatives and provide insight into system-wide trends.
LaborWatch<sup>®</sup>
Provide designated hospital leaders with automated notifications and escalations when hospital-defined safety thresholds are breached.
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Frequently asked questions
Learn more about obstetric command centers below. Have additional questions? We’re here to help.
How does an obstetric command center differ from centralized telemetry?
Telemetry centers are typically monitored by technicians who are tasked with watching every single patient. An obstetric command center is staffed by experienced obstetric nurses who use PeriWatch Vigilance to identify patients with potentially concerning trends, enabling them to focus their attention where it’s most needed. This model is scalable, reduces distractions, and ensures clinical expertise is concentrated on the patients who may require additional support.
Does PeriGen provide monitoring services?
No, PeriGen does not offer monitoring services. What we do provide is the software and the support that your team needs — including best‑practice guidelines, toolkits, and connections to reference sites that operate successful command centers of their own.
What is the return on investment for a command center model?
Command centers have the potential to offer your health system a faster path to adoption and operational impact than traditional bedside deployment. See what this could look like for your organization by reaching out to talk with one of our experts today.
We are interested in implementing a command center, but where do we start?
We’ve got all the resources you’ll need to get started. A command center deployment is not designed to be a plug-and-play solution — it’s intentionally adaptable so your organization can shape it around your goals and priorities. To support that work, we’ve designed a Command Center Toolkit that jump‑starts your planning process and helps to guide your team from day one. Contact us to learn more.
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Step into a new era of perinatal care
Connect with us today and explore how a partnership with PeriGen can help your hospital promote the best possible outcomes for moms and babies.