At Samaritan Medical Center (SMC) in Watertown, N.Y., care providers needed to continuously monitor patients' vital signs as staff moved them from the emergency department to radiology and other hospital areas.The hospital administrators decided to use a(n) _____, a cost-effective way to connect the monitoring devices and to prioritize the critical data that the devices were gathering.A nurse sitting at a terminal knows immediately if there is a problem.

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A local area network (LAN) is a network that connects devices in a limited area such as a hospital, school, or office building. It is a cost-effective way to connect devices like monitoring equipment in a hospital, allowing for the prioritization and immediate access to critical data by staff, such as nurses monitoring patients' vital signs.