Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Northeast Georgia Medical Center are one step closer to their goal of automating the management of sedation in hospital intensive care units (ICUs).

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- For its efforts to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the ICU to zero, the Texas Hospital Association has honored The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center with the inaugural Bill Aston Award for Quality.

By McLaughlin, N Leslie, G D; Williams, T A; Dobb, G J SUMMARY Adverse events have negative consequences for patients, including increased risk of death or permanent disability.

VISICU, Inc. (NASDAQ: EICU) and Alegent Health in Omaha, Nebraska, jointly announce plans to implement VISICU's eICU® Program early next year.

Health System introduces innovative quality program to Carolinas VISICU, Inc. (NASDAQ: EICU) and Moses Cone Health System jointly announce plans to implement VISICU's eICU(R) Program later this year.