In the United States, heart disease is the most common chronic disease and remains the leading cause of death for both men and women, making the ability to provide accurate continuous cardiac ...

Patient deaths at VA hospitals in Denver and New York City, as well as an overall indictment of nurse competency and processes at Veterans Health Administration facilities in general, are reminders of ...

Cambridge, Massachusetts – Philips, a global leader in health technology, today announced the introduction of an innovative telemetry platform designed to help address critical challenges in ...

At Florida Hospital Tampa, we were recently looking for ways to optimize patient monitoring due to the ever increasing use of telemetry, or required continuous electronic monitoring. Several factors ...

The authors report overutilization of telemetry monitoring in a community setting, increasing the cost of health care and potential harm to patients with unnecessary interventions. Objectives: ...

How a team at Cisco tapped IOS-XR, a multi-processing collector agent, and InfluxDB to create a telemetry monitoring system capable of ingesting 3TB of telemetry data per day. User expectations for ...

Reducing inappropriate use of cardiac telemetry may improve the cost of care while maintaining patient safety. With the impetus for healthcare reform and the imperative for healthcare organizations to ...