Health security

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOUR SURGERY

If you’ve ever watched Grey’s Anatomy, you know that hospitals are complicated systems with many moving parts (and sometimes, lots of drama). Doctors, nurses and other staff face endless demands and a long list of things that can go wrong. That means mistakes can (and often do) happen, especially in recent decades, as most hospitals have been forced to provide the same care on far more patients with far fewer resources. The result: Errors cause 400,000 deaths each year,according to the Journal of Patient Safety.

But one hospital in New York has found, what many call, a good solution. Since 2013, all 24 operating rooms at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ) have been wired with a remote video monitoring system created by a company called Arrowsight. Employees at Arrowsight’s three remote locations—one in Huntsville, Alabama and two in east India—keep tabs on the video footage.