Banner Health expands technology in new Fort Collins hospital

FORT COLLINS – Julie Reisetter presses a red button in a hospital bedroom, turning on a wall-mounted television at the new Banner Fort Collins Medical Center.

Next to the television, a video camera pans throughout the bedroom. A nurse from Mesa, Ariz., appears on the television screen and asks Reisetter about the weather.

“It’s really a virtual team,” explains Reisetter, chief nursing officer for Banner’s Telehealth Services.

The technology helps Banner Health nurses nationwide communicate with hospital staff members as they work together to monitor conditions of patients using high-tech equipment and electronic medical records. The system is part of an array of…