Tag: technology
Remote ICU
How do we Identify specific Remote ICU investment and emerging trends? Does the Remote ICU performance meet the customer's requirements? How do we manage Remote ICU Knowledge Management (KM)? How frequently do you track Remote... read more
Operator performs robot-assisted PCI from 100 miles away
Tele-stenting appears more possible now than ever, as Vascular Robotics announced an interventional cardiologist used its CorPath GRX System to perform a remote percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a pig 100 miles... read more
The Impact of Enhanced Critical Care Training and 24/7 (Tele‐ICU) Support on Medicare Spending and Postdischarge Utilization Patterns
Innovations in workforce training and technology specific to the ICU may be useful in addressing the shortage of intensivist physicians, yielding benefits to patients and payers. Implementation of the advanced practice provider... read more
Social Media in Critical Care: What’s All the Fuss About?
The way we communicate and learn has been revolutionized by technology. Almost all of us carry a smartphone these days, so we are never more than a phone call, message or text away from family, friends and colleagues. This... read more
Passive Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Using a Commercially Available Smartwatch
In this author interview, Gregory M. Marcus, MD, MAS discusses passive detection of Atrial Fibrillation using a commercially available smartwatch.... read more
Emory Cares for ICU Patients Remotely, Turning “Night into Day” from Australia
A partnership involving Emory Healthcare, Royal Perth Hospital in Australia, along with health technology company, Philips, will move night intensive care work in the Emory eICU Center into daylight hours, focusing on the... read more
A Pilot Study of Eye-Tracking Devices in ICU
Eye-tracking devices have been suggested as a means of improving communication and psychosocial status among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). This study was undertaken to explore the psychosocial impact and communication... read more
Creating a “Manageable Cockpit” for Clinicians
For many clinicians, the work of health care has become undoable. The "cockpit" where physicians and other health professionals work now consists of a cacophony of warning alerts, pop-up messages, mandatory tick boxes, a... read more
How Mayo Clinic Is Combating Information Overload in Critical Care Units
Health care teams depend on electronic health records (EHRs) to compile important medical data from innumerable lab tests and medical devices, observations, treatments, and diagnostic codes. We rely on it so much that we... read more
Virtual Reality to Improve Cognitive Alterations in ICU
More than 30 percent of patients who survive an episode of critical illness presents brain alterations that go beyond those of the disease that has led to the admission to intensive care (ICU). As a result of this cerebral... read more
Tomorrow’s ICU
Johns Hopkins clinicians and engineers are creating a model for a safer, less costly and more productive clinical unit that can be adopted anywhere. With clinicians spending less time on documenting and gathering supplies,... read more
The hospital of tomorrow in 10 points
Technology has advanced rapidly in recent years and is continuing to do so, with associated changes in multiple areas, including hospital structure and function. Here we describe in 10 points our vision of some of the ways... read more
Saving Lives in the ICU Through Artificial Intelligence
Hospitals today run according to evidence-based medicine. That makes for smart science. But for critical care, it can be a problem. A patient may appear normal, but if you had a sign that, in two to three hours, that patient... read more
Cardiac Output Monitoring: Throw it Out… or Keep it?
In critical care units, the shelf for cardiac output (CO) monitoring devices fills up with ever more innovative systems. Are these techniques useful, or are they expensive and irrelevant gadgets? There are arguments to defend... read more
