The intensive care unit, ICU, caters to patients with life-threatening illnesses and injuries, that require constant care, with close supervision and required to be clean and isolated for the patients. Caring for ICU Patients, visitors, and healthcare staff, bacteria and germs spreading is still a huge problem in 2019.
Emergency department are unique setting for privacy in the health care industry. Maintaining patient privacy in the hectic confines of the emergency department has always been a dilemma and concern. When the federal government raised the stakes in 2003, when the privacy requirements of the HIPAA when into effect, healthcare professionals had to make a reasonable efforts to the disclosure of health care information.
Polytronix, Inc.® Film and Glass Division found a problem in the healthcare industry and Polyvision® Smart Glass windows are the solution. The problem is that patients are often getting their recovery time interrupted by healthcare staff coming into their rooms to check their viral signs.
