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Colleagues,
As part of the annual U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals", please see the following on new technology that is beginning to make an impact in top hospitals ...
... Robots that allow medical teams to conduct rounds remotely ... Radio-frequency ID tags that track every doctor, nurse, and piece of equipment in the hospital in real time for faster emergency response ... Complete electronic medical histories of unconscious trauma patients ...
... According to industry analyst Datamonitor, spending on telemedicine, which now entails everything from remotely monitoring patients to analyzing medical images from afar and someday could even include long-distance surgery, will reach $2.4 billion this year and nearly triple to $6.1 billion by 2012...
... In rural areas, time-sensitive stroke management is enabled by robots so remote specialists can rapidly diagnose stroke and determine whether a patient is a good candidate for tPA, a drug that dissolves clots ... In one Michigan program at 31 hospitals, "After one year, 18 hospitals had administered the drug tPA that had never done so before," says Yulun Wang, the chairman and CEO of InTouch Health, which developed the robot...
... Robots are increasingly making their mark in the operating room. Originally approved for general abdominal procedures like gallbladder removal, robotic surgery—the surgeon manipulates computer controls rather than a scalpel—is now used for heart and prostate cancer surgery, gynecologic procedures, and bariatric surgery, among others ... Someday, the doctor guiding the robot could be sitting at a console literally across the world from the patient...
... transformation in the way patient records are gathered and stored gained momentum last winter when the U.S. economic stimulus package set aside $19 billion for healthcare information technology...
... When Palomar Medical Center West near San Diego opens in 2012, patients will sleep on "LifeBeds" covered in "smart" fabric that records their heart rate, pulse, and respiration and sends the info directly to their medical record...
... On a medical/surgical unit at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a flat-screen monitor is mounted on the wall near the foot of every bed. Hospital staffers wear ultrasound ID tags, and as soon as they walk into the room, their name and job title pop up. The system then makes the appropriate chart information available onscreen..
Read on & Comment at: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/best-hospitals/2009/07/15/...
ENJOY!
CC
.
As part of the annual U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals", please see the following on new technology that is beginning to make an impact in top hospitals ...
... Robots that allow medical teams to conduct rounds remotely ... Radio-frequency ID tags that track every doctor, nurse, and piece of equipment in the hospital in real time for faster emergency response ... Complete electronic medical histories of unconscious trauma patients ...
... According to industry analyst Datamonitor, spending on telemedicine, which now entails everything from remotely monitoring patients to analyzing medical images from afar and someday could even include long-distance surgery, will reach $2.4 billion this year and nearly triple to $6.1 billion by 2012...
... In rural areas, time-sensitive stroke management is enabled by robots so remote specialists can rapidly diagnose stroke and determine whether a patient is a good candidate for tPA, a drug that dissolves clots ... In one Michigan program at 31 hospitals, "After one year, 18 hospitals had administered the drug tPA that had never done so before," says Yulun Wang, the chairman and CEO of InTouch Health, which developed the robot...
... Robots are increasingly making their mark in the operating room. Originally approved for general abdominal procedures like gallbladder removal, robotic surgery—the surgeon manipulates computer controls rather than a scalpel—is now used for heart and prostate cancer surgery, gynecologic procedures, and bariatric surgery, among others ... Someday, the doctor guiding the robot could be sitting at a console literally across the world from the patient...
... transformation in the way patient records are gathered and stored gained momentum last winter when the U.S. economic stimulus package set aside $19 billion for healthcare information technology...
... When Palomar Medical Center West near San Diego opens in 2012, patients will sleep on "LifeBeds" covered in "smart" fabric that records their heart rate, pulse, and respiration and sends the info directly to their medical record...
... On a medical/surgical unit at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a flat-screen monitor is mounted on the wall near the foot of every bed. Hospital staffers wear ultrasound ID tags, and as soon as they walk into the room, their name and job title pop up. The system then makes the appropriate chart information available onscreen..
Read on & Comment at: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/best-hospitals/2009/07/15/...
ENJOY!
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