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Associated Press
Hospitals Use Technology to Aid Patients
Monday January 3, 3:28 am ET
By Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Writer

Hospitals Adopt 'Enhanced Intensive Care' Technology Allowing Doctors to Monitor Many Patients

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Lucille Lamarca could feel her heart begin to beat at a worrisome pace as she lay there alone in the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Hospital with a heart condition. Then from a speaker came a reassuring voice.

"Hi, I'm here," the voice said. "The nurse is on her way. You're going to be OK."

It was the voice of a doctor who had been keeping an eye on Lamarca from an office building miles away, via a camera and a bank of computer screens.

The hospital's parent, Kaleida Health System, is among an expanding number of hospital systems adopting "enhanced intensive care" technology -- known as eICU -- that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050103/remote_care_1.html