The BioButton records vital signs and sends readings to nurses sitting in a 24-hour control room elsewhere in the hospital or in their homes. By Phil Galewitz – KFF Health News.

Bonifacio Deoso, a night shift nurse, spent much of the pandemic sitting in silence with patients like Catalina Gonzalez, a housekeeper from Santa Clarita who survived 119 days on an ECMO machine.

Virtual nurses handle administrative tasks, which UH said will allow bedside nurses to spend more time helping patients. And there are many tasks a virtual nurse can’t do, such as putting in IVs.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — At University Hospitals, the nurse taking care of you might not be a person at your bedside, but a face on a screen. The face belongs to a virtual nurse, connected to a patient ...