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, and achieve measurable improvements on best practice compliance. After the first six months of tele-ICU, ICU length of stays actually got even shorter as we were able to reduce them by 34 percent,” Bouder said. “This told me that there were active care interventions taking place, particularly at night, that were now getting patients out of the ICU faster. Certainly, reducing length of stay was a pleasant surprise. On the flip side, there are areas where one might think one is doing well when in reality this is not true.

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