Through automation, Ardent Health has increased inpatient vital sign collection from four times per day to 1,440 times per day. Automating the collection of inpatient vital signs has improved the ...

Monitoring vital signs is essential for understanding human physiology and managing health conditions. Conventional methods ...

For anyone who menstruates, this is a routine question during any visit to your doctor. Health care providers generally ask this to determine whether their patient is concerned about a menstrual ...

In medicine, vital signs are key indicators of health and physical condition, related to essential body functions. The most standard and time-honored list includes body temperature, blood pressure, ...

Knowing your family history can alert a doctor to potential problems like heart disease, for instance. But getting that information sometimes requires an extra step: genetic testing. In this week’s ...

A new UT Southwestern Medical Center study of electronic medical records from six Dallas-Fort Worth area hospitals found 20 percent of patients had one or more unstable vital signs when they were ...

Chris Fernandez is the co-founder and CEO of EnsoData, a company using AI to more accurately diagnose health conditions. If we take the three-legged stool model, popular with financial planners to ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Thursday it would acquire medical-device maker Vital Signs Inc for $860 million, a move to expand its $17 billion health care operation into the ...

Vital signs matter. And they matter most when they're collected correctly and they provide accurate data. Dismiss them, or do them incorrectly, and the erroneous information will likely result in ...