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Article: Swedish Is First in Northwest to Bring Remote Monitoring System to Intensive-Care Units; New eICU(R) Technology Provides Added Patient Safety.
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- October 19, 2004
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SEATTLE, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish Medical Center announced today that on Sept. 8 it became the first health-care provider in the Northwest to begin using new technology that allows intensive-care physicians, called intensivists, to remotely monitor patients in multiple intensive care units (ICUs). With this new eICU(R) system, an intensivist at Swedish is able to watch over and direct care for dozens of patients at once from a location apart from the hospital. Intensivists who staff the eICU command center back up regular bedside care and help monitor ICU patients around-the clock.
Swedish is among the first 13 health systems in the country to begin using ...