University
of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital has launched a digital system
that allows parents to keep an eye on their newborns who are in the
neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a news segment aired on CBS Minneapolis.
In early 2013, the nurses at Cedars-Sinai discussed a similar system.
They used unmodified iPads running Apple’s FaceTime to offer mothers
the option to see their premature or sick babies in the neonatal
intensive care unit (NICU) even if they were immobile while recovering
from delivery or the infants were in isolation. The hospital named this
service BabyTime Read More
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- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.