The authors report overutilization of telemetry monitoring in a community setting, increasing the cost of health care and potential harm to patients with unnecessary interventions. Objectives: ...

While telemetry is valuable for monitoring patients’ vital signs and other measurements, inappropriate use of the tool can also expose patients to unintended harm, according to a report in JAMA ...

Although current policy at many hospitals is for patients to have continuous routine cardiac monitoring in the hours after undergoing PCI, a new study suggests it may be safe to forgo it in patients ...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital in St. Charles is equipped with an advanced telemetry monitoring system that allows clinicians to provide inpatients with a higher level of care. The ...

In late November, staff in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono’s cardiovascular telemetry unit took 14 minutes to respond to an alarm that sounded because one patient’s blood oxygen level fell to a ...

Even when patients are on telemetry monitoring according to appropriate guidelines, "there are very few things they tell us that we can't find out in other ways," researcher says. Analysis of one ...

Reducing inappropriate use of cardiac telemetry may improve the cost of care while maintaining patient safety. With the impetus for healthcare reform and the imperative for healthcare organizations to ...

After three harrowing weeks in the hospital, Terry Downs, 68, was on a path to recovery. A former Boeing engineer who helped design the stealth bomber, Downs was admitted to HCA Healthcare's Wesley ...

Cardiac issues are just one reason you might have telemetry monitoring. You might need it after surgery, recovery from a stroke, or if you have blood clots.(Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images.) Telemetry ...

WESTFIELD — Many Westfield Memorial Hospital patients requiring telemetry monitoring will no longer have to be transferred to another Allegheny Health Network hospital, and can receive care in their ...