title: Enterprise-wide patient monitoring can improve quality, reduce costs.
abstract: Hospitals and health systems can reduce costs and improve the quality of patient care by implementing an enterprise-wide approach to patient monitoring, writes David Zechman, vice president of cardiovascular services at Saint Luke's-Shawnee Mission Health System in Kansas City.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Services, Saint Luke's-Shawnee Mission Health System, Kansas City, Mo., USA.
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authors.lastname: Zechman
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008923:Missouri; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D018511:Systems Integration; D013686:Telemetry