Abstract

Medical facilities are constantly striving to increase the quality of patient care. Yet a shortage in qualified nursing staff, a key component in quality patient care, will continue for the foreseeable future. This has prompted the need to be able to perform more work, with greater accuracy, using fewer resources. In order to address this seemingly paradoxical situation a new breed of technology has emerged in the healthcare industry. Advances in Bio-Medical Device Integration (BMDI) have been able to relieve the nursing staff from some routine but critical tasks thus freeing them to focus on increasing the level of patient care. Amazingly this technology can be shown to pay for itself in a very short time.