Hospital command centers, where a technician watches patients' vital signs for irregularities, have proliferated across the country. The need for such facilities in health care has increased in recent decades, as an array of monitoring devices produces tens of thousands of alarms on a daily basis, to the point where medical professionals tune out the ones that can signal a life-threatening event. In other health technology news: cyberattacks, breaches and an upgraded treadmill.
from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2JiVQCl
May 13, 2019
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