“Bleeding heavily after an emergency C-section last year, Jennifer Gale ended up in the intensive-care unit at Holmes Hospital in Melbourne, Fla. Throughout the night, the critical-care specialist on duty closely watched her vital signs, ordering additional units of blood until her condition stabilized.
But the doctor wasn’t at her bedside—or even in the hospital. Working from a command center in a nearby office building, he was remotely monitoring her and other patients in six intensive-care units in three different hospitals operated by Rockledge, Fla.-based health system Health First.”
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Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal, 27 October 2009
