ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues. In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.
Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.
ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues. In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.
Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.
When patients are at risk for falling or self-harm, hospitals may assign staff or volunteers to sit with them and call if help is needed. If those patients need to be isolated, as in the case of infection control concerns, sitters could be put at risk by being in the same room. ECRI’s Priyanka Shah, a Senior Project Officer in Device Evaluation, has been evaluating remote monitoring telesitting devices to address this need.
