Billings Clinic announced plans to construct a new outpatient cardiac center and an ambulatory telemetry unit for heart patients. The new cardiac center will relocate outpatient cardiac services from ...

HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital has cut the ribbon on its new 15-bed cardiac telemetry unit, according to an Aug. 31 report from South Florida Hospital News. The expansion will allow the system to ...

A remote monitoring system being implemented at hospitals in Oxnard and Camarillo means heart rhythms of patients at risk of cardiac arrests and other problems are being tracked by technicians 430 ...

The Guam Memorial Hospital Authority is reporting steady progress on multiple facility improvement projects aimed at maintaining a safe and functional environment for patients and staff. Hospital offi ...

Inappropriate utilization of cardiac telemetry is wasteful spending with no significant clinical benefit. Eliminating inappropriate use of cardiac telemetry can generate significant cost savings for ...

Gina Covino puts her heart into every part of her job. After working as a registered nurse, Covino found a calling in supporting other nurses. Today, she is clinical lead at Regional Hospital of ...

Wilmington, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System was able to reduce its mean daily cost for non-intensive care unit cardiac telemetry from $18,971 to $5,772 in less than six months through an ...

Interdisciplinary rounds (IRs) have been proposed to improve staff communication and reduce LOS. There have been no studies of IRs on an inpatient telemetry ward. Patients on a telemetry unit of a ...

To detect "silent" or new cardiac abnormalities, all patients hospitalized for stroke should receive continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring (telemetry) for at least the first 24 hours after the stroke ...