"Moving the Needle": Dr. Ramsay Discusses Monitoring Interventions to Reduce Preventable Deaths
Channel: Patient Safety Movement
Date: 2018-03-29

Michael A.E. Ramsay, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at Baylor University Medical Center, argues that, like our Apple watches and Fitbits, patients should have constant monitoring devices on them at all times. Very few hospitals have implemented a system of a mobile monitor that connects to nurses' smartphones but those hospitals who have have seen immediate and effective results. As of now, monitors are not integrated and they are not warning us early enough.