eICU monitors patients remotely

There was a time when remote monitoring of patients—the “eICU”—was something many hospitals reviewed, with most concluding the technology was too expensive.  Then, COVID-19 blunted the accountants.  eICU’s have become more commonplace, but this piece describes a system that remotely monitors patients on ventilators with a touch screen. . . “featuring a horizontal bar along the top of the screen, which functions as a stationary track for the movement of two vertical bars that run the full height of the screen. Moving across the screen, a stylus carried by the vertical bars moves up and down in response to its commands. Meanwhile, a connected camera sends images of the screen to healthcare operators located outside of the patient’s room.”    MORE

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