Ken Alltucker, USA Today
“At the Phoenix hospital’s intensive-care unit, Taylor was treated remotely by a doctor in Tel Aviv, Israel, via a two-way camera installed in the patient’s room.
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Ankur Gupta, iMedicalApps
“A study published last week by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that patients in the ICU of UMass Memorial Medical Center had significantly reduced mortality rate (8.6% as compared to 10.7%) when they were monitored by a remote “eICU.”
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Marisa Plumb, IEEE Spectrum
“According to doctors at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, intensive care units backed up by off-site doctors and nurses, who could remotely monitor critically ill patients and direct the ICU’s on-site staff, had fewer patient deaths and shorter ICU stays.
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Felasfa Wodajo, iMedicalApps
“We have reported in the past on AirStrip, a smartphone and iPad app that allows a mobile doctor to monitor the vital signs of patients in an obstetric ward or an ICU. The reverse, where a fixed doctor monitors multiple remote patients is now entering the mainstream and already making a difference in many patients’ lives.
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Elizabeth Cooney, The Boston Globe
“Monitoring the sickest hospital patients remotely from a command center staffed around the clock by intensive care specialists could save 350 lives and $122 million a year if every hospital in the state adopted the model, according to a report being released today by a Cambridge health care think tank.
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Coletti C et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(8)
Objective:
Remote intensive care unit (ICU) monitoring (tele-ICU) may provide a means to address the shortage of intensive care physicians. However, the consequences of implementing a tele-ICU system for house staff education and clinical experience are unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine resident perceptions of the impact of a tele-ICU implementation on patient care, education, and the overall work environment.
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Jane Lethlean, The Journal-Standard
“Access to adequate health care is a pressing problem for rural area hospitals, where specialists are rare. Often, patients needing urgent intensive care are sent to bigger city hospitals to receive the medical attention they desperately need. FHN is addressing this issue by debuting its eICU program.
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Hiran Ratnayake, The News Journal
“She remained in the ICU for a couple of weeks. During the day, she was seen by doctors known as intensivists, who are specially trained to manage critical-care patients. At night, she also was monitored by intensivists, this time through a video camera trained on her bed, thanks to technology known as the tele-ICU.
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Dr. Wes
“Increasingly our Western world culture assumes that most things in medicine can be reduced in to a linear, data-driven, algorithmic processes. One only needs to witness the now-famously heralded article on ICU check-lists to understand the unwavering trust we have in this model. ICU medicine’s complexity reinforces our trust in this approach because patients are usually too sick to contribute to their care.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Three U.S. hospitals are now depending on a new trend in health IT to help them overcome a clinician shortage in rural areas: electronic intensive care units.
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Richard Quinn, The Hospitalist
“A new study questioning the efficacy of telemedicine in reducing length of stay (LOS) and improving patient care in the ICU is further proof that remote patient care only works when there is a strong support structure behind it, according to a former SHM president.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Are Doctors Ready for Virtual Visits?” read a New York Times headline from last week. It’s a question we’ve been pondering for some time. Now, Dr. Pauline Chen, writing in the Times, ponders for the whole world to see.
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Rob Cahill, HealthCanal
“The many applications of telemedicine include the monitoring of hospital patients by physicians at another location. A new study by investigators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston points to factors that may influence the effectiveness of remote patient monitoring in an intensive care unit setting.
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Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“For over a decade now, health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, or the use of satellite technology, video conferencing and data transfer through phones and the Internet, to connect doctors to patients in far-flung locales. But are doctors ready for this form of technology?
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The use of telemedicine in intensive care units does not improve patients’ risk of death or length of stay, according to a recent study.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“What this really means is that productivity among “intensivists,” as doctors specializing in intensive care are known, is now free to rise. Telemedicine technology lets each doctor treat more patients simultaneously, with little added risk.
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ScienceDaily
“Remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) was not associated with an overall improvement in the risk of death or length of stay in the ICU or hospital, according to a study in the December 23/30 issue of JAMA.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“St. Mary’s Health Center, an SSM Health Care facility in Jefferson City, Mo., reports success with the use of a virtual ICU program, used in conjunction with its in-house program.
At the Institute for Healthcare Improvement National Forum, Dec. 9-12 in Orlando, Fla., executives from St. Mary’s announced results of its virtual use of ICU technology to improve mortality rates, lengths of stay and quality measures.
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Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal
“Bleeding heavily after an emergency C-section last year, Jennifer Gale ended up in the intensive-care unit at Holmes Hospital in Melbourne, Fla. Throughout the night, the critical-care specialist on duty closely watched her vital signs, ordering additional units of blood until her condition stabilized.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“Royal Philips Electronics has signed an agreement with Geisinger Health System, an integrated US healthcare system, to launch an electronic Intensive Care Unit (eICU) Programme.
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