INTERVIEW: Sensium's patient monitoring 'plaster' could save hospitals thousands
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
News that as many as five patients died last year in a Belfast hospital simply because they had not been treated quickly enough while waiting at the Accident & Emergency area hit the UK headlines in February. This, says Steve Atkinson, the head of UK company Sensium Healthcare, is down to hospital staff not being able to see when patients’ conditions are deteriorating as they wait in the Emergency Department waiting and holding areas .
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