Every second counts in a hospital. Especially in Massachusetts, where hospital bed occupancy is near capacity and the risk of bed shortages is the second highest in the nation. Patients have grown accustomed to full emergency departments and anyone who works in health care has seen physicians log hours of “pajama time” to catch up on paperwork after long days in the clinic. With demand for certain procedures outpacing capacity, long waits have become too frequent.
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