This hospital does a lot of neat things, like blood tests that are automated. The hospital though as not been unaffected by current economic times and has had to
lay off some employees. The robot did not take their place as they were already there and working.
El Camino Hospital Will Lay Off 140 Employees - 5 to 6% of The Hospital Workers
This video is nice as it goes through the translation technology used in the ICU and information from the ambulance goes right to the hospital too.
The facility was also the first on the west coast to offer this new treatment for severe asthma. The link below also has another video where you can see some of the other technologies used, and where wireless lives in the walls of the hospital. BD
El Camino Hospital Offers New Treatment for Severe Asthma–Bronchial Thermoplasty Approved by FDA in April
At El Camino Hospital, robots are enlisted to help with small tasks, devices keep the noise down and patients’ beds actually digest and translate the doctor’s orders.
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