Every year, I get a reminder to schedule a wellness check with my primary care physician. It’s all part of a preventive healthcare program to make sure everything is in good working order. The nurse ...

Vital signs measure the body’s most essential functions. They include heart rate, body temperature, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Healthcare professionals use vital signs to ...

Every year, it's important to make sure your entrepreneurial health is in the best shape possible with checkups that gauge your company’s culture and value, as well as your personal involvement. I ...

Through automation, Ardent Health has increased inpatient vital sign collection from four times per day to 1,440 times per day. Automating the collection of inpatient vital signs has improved the ...

Jean Sherwood, of Bend, stepped on a scale Wednesday morning, responding to directions from a home health monitoring machine attached to a scale, that Sherwood keeps in her bedroom. The machine, in a ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS GETS NEW TECHNOLOGY. IT MONITORS VITAL SIGNS AND MOVEMENT WITHOUT NURSES HAVING TO TOUCH THE PATIENTS. WELL, LAST YEAR, THEY HAD SENSORS IN A QUARTER OF THEIR ROOMS. AND AS OF THIS WEEK ...