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Why are we dragging our feet when more automation in health care will save lives?

  • Written by Thomas Hooven, Neonatologist, Columbia University Medical Center
imageFrom closed-loop ventilators to smarter vital sign monitors, automation has untapped potential to improve medical outcomes.From www.shutterstock.com

As a neonatologist, I worry about patients with pulmonary hypertension. This unforgiving disease, sometimes seen after premature birth, can end with sudden death from constricting blood vessels in the...

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