These days, an increasing proportion of psychiatric care is being delivered online through various telemedicine platforms and organizations. There are certainly some practical advantages to this ...

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, 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 ...

Routine checks of vital signs during the night often prevent hospitalized patients from getting sufficient recuperative sleep. But patients who are judged to be clinically stable by an algorithm that ...

The health and well-being of many hospital patients might improve if nurses stop performing overnight vital-sign checks on them, according to new research. Nearly half the patients awakened for ...

Hospitals are noisy places. What with the alarms and the interruptions to take medications or check your blood pressure, pulse, or blood sugar. It is challenging for patients to get any real rest.

A new study has found that parent intuition is more likely to predict critical illness than various vital signs used to measure health. In some 4.7 per cent of cases, parents said they were concerned ...

If data represents the next gold rush for health care, a vast treasure trove of it slips away every day. The increased enthusiasm for AI has led to significant investments in novel solutions for ...

Hospital smart rooms take the pressure off of nurses doing tasks at bedside that can be done virtually. The technologies that make up a smart room – remote patient monitoring, virtual care, computer ...