The Picture of Health

The Wall Street Journal
October 27, 2009

Remote monitoring is offering a high-tech solution to the vexing problem facing a growing number of hospitals: how to care for the sickest patients amid a worsening shortage of intensivists, the critical-care specialists trained in caring for life-threatening injuries or illnesses...

...At the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, a study of 6,400 patients in seven adult intensive-care units monitored by eICU showed substantial benefits in reducing both costs and mortality, according to the hospital's director, Craig Lilly...

...Dr. Lilly is now working on a study of the benefits of remote monitoring for community hospitals, with funding from the New England Healthcare Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass. "The brilliance isn't the technology, but the fact that we can use the technology to help physicians practice evidence-based medicine," says Wendy Everett, president of the nonprofit group....

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