Seven “medical totems” have been brought to the remote town of Jordão, Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon. They can be translated into the local Indigenous language, enabling virtual appointments in a ...

The first triage system ever cleared by the FDA for assessing hemorrhage risk in trauma patients is powered by AI. How did its inventors ensure it was up to the job? Hemorrhage, or uncontrolled blood ...

Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers posed by COVID-19 by using robots to remotely measure patients’ vital signs. (Courtesy: the ...

Designed for optimized workflows to support earlier detection of patient deterioration Future-ready device features customizable configurations and upgrade capabilities Connects to Baxter’s ...

Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest -- and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence ...

A collaborative team of researchers has turned Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robot into a tiny mobile doctor, now able to remotely measure patients’ vital signs from a distance of over six feet (1.8 m).

Patient vital-sign monitoring is at the heart of modern healthcare. These insights have transformed patient treatment and care by providing a range of real-time measurements of various physiological ...

To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) One evening, my 92-year-old patient was ...

Uninterrupted sleep could be more important to patients than regular nighttime vital sign checks, according to a research letter published in the July 1 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. A research ...