Telemetry is a new word, created in the 1960s when hospitals began collecting and transmitting cardiac information on patients from afar. Its root is Greek, meaning to measure from a long distance and that sense got used first in the artillery to figure out where to land a shell in the 1860s and then in 1953 to collect coins from TV viewers. My own experience with telemetry began last Friday when I was kitted out with a heart monitor at Saratoga Hospital to check for a-fib.
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