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10/22/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Hospital employs “big brother” technology in the name of efficiency; patients find lack of human interaction unsettling

It looks like a hospital in the U.K. is taking a page out of “Big Brother’s” book. The Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire is the first hospital to issue all staff and patients with electronic “wristbands” which are used to keep track of their movements. For a National Health Service (NHS) trial, over 4,000 infrared sensors were […]

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