After three harrowing weeks in the hospital, Terry Downs, 68, was on a path to recovery. A former Boeing engineer who helped design the stealth bomber, Downs was admitted to HCA Healthcare's Wesley ...

Cardiac issues are just one reason you might have telemetry monitoring. You might need it after surgery, recovery from a stroke, or if you have blood clots.(Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images.) Telemetry ...

Chicago's Rush University Medical Center has filed a lawsuit against Draeger, charging that the patient monitoring system it spent four years and $18 million trying to make work has failed to live up ...

A remote monitoring system being implemented at hospitals in Oxnard and Camarillo means heart rhythms of patients at risk of cardiac arrests and other problems are being tracked by technicians 430 ...

While telemetry is valuable for monitoring patients’ vital signs and other measurements, inappropriate use of the tool can also expose patients to unintended harm, according to a report in JAMA ...

Telemetry is a critical tool in keeping patients alive, but without proper monitoring, it can lead to tragedy. A former executive with HCA, the nation’s largest hospital chain, described an “epidemic ...

A Mission Hospital cardiac patient died in late July after becoming disconnected from telemetry monitoring for at least an hour, and hospital administration repeatedly refused to hold an emergency ...

Health technology company Philips has introduced a new telemetry platform to address the challenge of staffing shortages and alarm management. A key feature is Telemetry Monitor 5500, a "data-driven ...

In late November, staff in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono’s cardiovascular telemetry unit took 14 minutes to respond to an alarm that sounded because one patient’s blood oxygen level fell to a ...

Empowering clinical teams to respond to surges, track usage and ease workflows with user-friendly touchscreen technology for telemetry patients on the move Telemetry overuse can burden frontline teams ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — In spring 2023, a patient ...