'EICU' Lets Doctors Monitor Many Patients
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar &#151; via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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A wireless system installed in Sydney Children's Hospital saves time and money and improvs the quality of care, doctors agree.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors.
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Patients around the country will be able to book a GP appointment through their TV set.
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BALTIMORE -- Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside?
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Doctors using new technology can get fast feedback on whether treatments are working for breast cancer victims, a new study shows.
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Science & environment: Connecting doctors with patients via video is not new - but is now the time for it finally to take off?
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Five major US corporations have joined forces to create a "medical Internet" on which some 2.5 million workers can bring together their personal health records in one secure location, providing access to everything from prescriptions and cholesterol readings to medical histories.
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GPs are providing more and better services to patients, performance figures suggest.
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Digital patient records could become building blocks in a nationwide biomedical computer network for assembling and distributing up-to-the-minute studies of disease.
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Partners HealthCare is teaming up with one of the state's largest employers in an experiment to see whether they can improve employees' health and, ideally, reduce medical costs by monitoring workers' high blood pressure over the Internet.
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WASHINGTON - Privacy advocates are concerned that an implantable microchip designed to help doctors tap into a patient's medical records could undermine confidentiality or could even be used to track the patient's movements.   "If privacy protections aren't built in at the outset, there could be harmful consequences for patients," said Emily Stewart, a policy analyst at the Health Privacy Project...
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Last year, an estimated 150,000 foreigners visited India for medical procedures, and the number is increasing at the rate of about 15 percent a year, according to a health care specialist at the Confederation of Indian Industries.
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Intensive-care patients at Inova Alexandria Hospital soon will be monitored by digital cameras and other high-tech systems as part of a multimillion-dollar effort to bring a "virtual ICU" to the critically ill.
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New software could help mental-health professionals assess patients and ensure that salespeople project a positive attitude.
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Several states are considering the use of video surveillance in nursing homes, to keep an eye on residents and the care they receive.
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Primary care doctors, who sometimes review hundreds of test results each week, reported in a new study that delays in reviewing results for patients are common, and many said they are unhappy with how they manage these crucial pieces of information.