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Connectivity enables spot-on flexible monitoring.(OPERATING ROOM)
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Healthcare Purchasing News
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July 1, 2008
- Author:
- Akridge, Jeannie
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If ever there's a place for flexibility, it's in healthcare. Patients present to facilities with multiple conditions and complicated disease states and their acuity levels can change in an instant. Keeping track of these acuity changes and responding to patients quickly and appropriately has always been the challenge for time-strapped clinicians. New advancements in patient monitoring technology focused on flexibility, mobility and connectivity are helping clinicians from the surgical suite to the bedside make critical decisions.
"We're seeing that the monitoring capability has really dramatically increased by the types of patients that they're taking, the number of ...