Doctors Monitor Cardiac Devices on iPad with New Technology
by Chrissie Nims on Dec 12th, 2011
New advances in technology often cut costs and facilitate complicated procedures. Boca Raton Regional Hospital has studied and developed a way to wirelessly reprogram and monitor cardiac devices with an iPad. According to a story in mobihealthnews, the remote-K-viewer allows nurses and other physicians with less training to program and document changes in devices like pacemakers and defibrillators. With this system, a physician uses an iPad to remotely connect with the information display of a cardiac device programmer.
The remote-K-viewer system will potentially save valuable time and money.
The technology was developed by E. Martin Kloosterman, MD, Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory and Chief of the Cardiology Department at Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
How will technological advances affect your practice? What are the advantages and drawbacks to new systems like the remote-K-viewer?
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