Patients in intensive care units require around-the-clock care, but with hospitals often filled to the brim and understaffed, it can be difficult. That's where electronic ICUs, also known as eICUs or ...

Blink and you'd think nurse Clark Wurth is an air traffic controller. He dons a headset as he sits in front of six huge monitors flashing with alerts and colorful moving charts. Blink again -- as ...

With concern high over surge capacity associated with a potential H1N1 outbreak or terrorist-related emergency, the Inova Health System recently completed a full-scale drill to test its response to an ...

Tucked inside of Health First’s administrative offices off U.S. 1 in Rockledge is one of Brevard’s best-kept healthcare secrets. The thing is, those who work for Health First’s Electronic Intensive ...

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - October 27, 2013) - An eICU uses telecommunications technology to diagnose and treat patients in the ICU remotely. Using two-way cameras, video monitors, microphones, and ...

It's 2 a.m. A diabetic father hospitalized in intensive care at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital for pneumonia, with multiple failing organs, requires a ventilator to stay alive. Suddenly, a mucous ...

Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, like many health care facilities in the U.S., always considered patient complications an unfortunate but inevitable result of prolonged hospital stays. Individuals ...

The growing acceptance of telemedicine has helped it gain ground in areas never imagined like emergency rooms in rural areas in the Midwest and to quickly identify stroke patients. In recent years the ...

A doctor at a hospital in India's capital, New Delhi, was recently tracking a wall of monitors displaying the vital signs of intensive care patients admitted hundreds of miles away when red-and-yellow ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been a constant headache for hospitals around the country, and on the list of IHI interventions since the inception of the 100,000 Lives Campaign in 2006. It ...

HOSPITAL CARE. HEY, IT’S DR. WALKER. OKAY, SO THIS MAY NOT LOOK LIKE A HOSPITAL. HI. CAN YOU SEE ME? EXCELLENT, BUT THIS ACTUALLY IS AN ICU. GIVE US A LITTLE WAVE. THERE YOU GO AS IN INTENSIVE CARE ...

Hospitals Form Partnership to Offer VISICU's eICU(R) Program The eICU(R) solution, created by VISICU, Inc., will be integrated later this year across three independent Wisconsin hospital systems. A ...