Impact of Weekly Case-based Tele-education on Quality of Care in a Limited Resource Medical ICU

Impact of Weekly Case-based Tele-education on Quality of Care in a Limited Resource Medical ICU

Limited critical care subspecialty training and experience is available in many low- and middle-income countries, creating barriers to the delivery of evidence-based critical care. We hypothesized that a structured tele-education... read more

Tele-ICU Leads to Overall Reduction in ICU Mortality

Tele-ICU Leads to Overall Reduction in ICU Mortality

A new systematic review and meta-analysis has found that implementation of tele-ICU services was associated with an overall reduction in ICU mortality. Furthermore, in subgroup analysis, the pooled odds ratio for ICU mortality... read more

Telemedicine Reduces ICU Mortality Rate at Valley Health

Telemedicine Reduces ICU Mortality Rate at Valley Health

During the first year of tele-ICU at Valley Health, the technology helped save 125 lives, achieve a 35 to 44 percent reduction in ICU mortality rate, reduce ICU length of stay by 34 percent, reduce the sepsis mortality rate,... read more

Anesthesia Telemedicine: Assessing Hard-to-Reach Patients for Surgery

Anesthesia Telemedicine: Assessing Hard-to-Reach Patients for Surgery

Medically fragile infants on ventilation support at community or rural hospitals without surgical services sometimes need those services. That poses a challenge for pediatric anesthesiologists who need to assess these babies... read more

Real-Time Patient-Provider Video Telemedicine Integrated with Clinical Care

Real-Time Patient-Provider Video Telemedicine Integrated with Clinical Care

Telemedicine by means of video visits can increase patient access to care, but there is little evidence about broad integration of video visits into existing clinical care, particularly for primary care.1,2 In an integrated... read more

Dutch Ambitions on eHealth

Dutch Ambitions on eHealth

Dutch government is encouraging the healthcare sector to expand telehealth (eHealth) services. Dutch government wants eHealth to become more widely available and is encouraging the healthcare sector to develop it further.... read more

Remote ICU

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

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

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

Emory Cares for ICU Patients Remotely, Turning “Night into Day” from Australia

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

ICU Telemedicine Program Financial Outcomes

ICU Telemedicine Program Financial Outcomes

The ability of properly modified ICU telemedicine programs to increase case volume and access to high-quality critical care with improved annual direct contribution margins suggests that there is a financial argument to encourage... read more

Emory Healthcare leverages Philips eICU platform to save $4.6 million

Emory Healthcare leverages Philips eICU platform to save $4.6 million

Emory Healthcare used Philips' technology for an eICU program, resulting in massive savings, lowered readmission rates and more. Emory's story began in 2010 and 2011, when team members saw tele-ICUs based on platforms... read more

Tele-ICU shows positive outcomes at Florida hospitals

Tele-ICU shows positive outcomes at Florida hospitals

Large hospitals staff their ICUs with 24/7 intensivists but smaller facilities rely on tele-ICU systems that provide specialist help as needed. The eCare program being implemented at BayCare, which includes 14 Florida hospitals,... read more