Wendy Everett of NEHI Discusses How New Technologies Can Improve Care, Cut Costs

iHealthBeat
October 11, 2011

In a conversation with iHealthBeat, Wendy Everett -- founding president of NEHI -- discussed how innovative technologies could help overcome human error, improve health care quality and reduce costs.

Everett noted that NEHI has worked with the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center and two community hospitals on a project to implement telehealth technology in intensive care units. The project -- which allowed critical care physicians to remotely monitor ICU patients -- helped reduce mortality and length of hospital stay, Everett said...

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