Tomorrow's Hospital: How technology will be transforming both inpatient and at-home care

The year is 2024. At a small regional hospital, an automated call has just come in, triggered by a patient?s personal fitness-monitoring device, which has detected several sudden and drastic anomalies?a sharp spike in pulse rate followed by an extreme slowdown, and slow and shallow breathing. Data from her smartphone reveal she just experienced a very sudden deceleration of key vital signs. The artificial-intelligence triage system monitoring the incoming data puts the pieces together and concludes the patient has been in a car accident and may be seriously hurt and possibly unconscious.An ambulance is called, and the first responders are given the accident location and the patient?s vital signs before even arriving at the scene.