Healthcare providers still monitor patients’ vital signs the same way they did more than 50 years ago—creating considerable room for improvement. Implementing wireless and wearable continuous patient monitoring, in fact, enables health systems and hospitals to improve the overall experience for patients and their families, increase confidence among clinicians that they are making decisions based on the most relevant and actionable data possible, empowering them to focus on the patients who need it most, all while reducing the cognitive burden on nurses and physicians. In this conversation, Bernd Saugel, MD and Stephanie Kovalick discuss the benefits of augmenting current spot check monitoring protocols with wireless and wearable continuous patient monitoring tools.

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