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: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Telemetry is a critical tool in keeping patients alive, but without proper monitoring, it can lead to tragedy. A former executive ...

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 ...

A Delaware healthcare system was able to reduce its use of cardiac telemetry by 70% without affecting patient safety by integrating American Heart Association guidelines into their electronic ordering ...

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in patients with congestive heart failure. Objectives: The purposes of this international, prospective ...

To detect "silent" or new cardiac abnormalities, all patients hospitalized for stroke should receive continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring (telemetry) for at least the first 24 hours after the stroke ...

Megan Duncan, a cardiology nurse at the University of Michigan Hospital, began filing reports with her superiors detailing concerns with the hospital’s new remote heartbeat monitoring program in ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced ICU Care, the nation’s leading provider of high-acuity telemedicine services, announced that the company has launched telemetry monitoring services at Passavant ...

WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare introduced today its new CARESCAPE™ Telemetry platform, a wireless patient monitoring offering for hospitals. Built on GE CARESCAPE Enterprise Access™ ...

Pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of AMG 162, a fully human monoclonal antibody to Receptor Activator of NF kappa B Ligand (RANKL), following a single subcutaneous dose to patients with ...

Union nurses at Mission demanded hospital administration meet with them to address standards of care following the July death of a patient in the cardiac unit. // Watchdog photo by Katie Linsky Shaw A ...

Telemetry is a critical tool in keeping patients alive, but without proper monitoring, it can lead to tragedy. A former executive with HCA, the nation’s largest hospital chain, described an “epidemic ...