Monitoring Patients During Surgery With Your Cell Phone? There's an App for That, Too

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http://www.physorg.com/news192463162.html

VigiVU, created for the iPhone by the VUMC Department of Anesthesiology, expands on an in-house desktop program called Vigilance to make the technology more portable and efficient.
It keeps the clinician “in touch” when care locations are multiple and separate, with the ability to monitor up to four patients simultaneously.

“It brings the functions of our desktop computer programs onto the mobile device. So, yes, ‘There’s an app for that, too,’” said Anesthesiologist Brian Rothman, VUMC associate director of Perioperative Informatics.

Rothman said the app enhances proactive decision-making, makes communication between team personnel more efficient, and can improve patient care through perioperative situational awareness, collecting data from multiple sources including room video, monitors, labs, and medical records.

Medical supervisors in charge of multiple rooms previously had to visit each room individually to check on patients, review histories and vitals trends or use Vigilance on a desktop computer. Simultaneous monitoring is now accomplished by mobile staff using the iPhone.

With the iPhone app, communication between clinicians during urgent situations is no longer reliant on outdated paging systems with delays; a finger tap allows VigiVU users to text staff signed into a specific case.

[SocialistLez]

1. Will there be firing of medical professionals because of this?

Just wondering.

[supernova]

2. Why would there be?

It seems more efficient than pagers where you have to wait for the person to call back.