New Study Shows Tele-ICUs Save Lives, Decrease Patient Time in ICU

Study authors call for expanded use of tele-ICUs

We wanted to share a study that was recently released by the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative regarding the effectiveness of tele-ICU based programs. This study found that hospitals using tele-ICU programs have seen great improvements in patient outcomes, mortality, length of stay, margin per case, patient retention and volume growth.

The study, audited by Price-Waterhouse Coopers, "Critical Care, Critical Choices: The Case for Tele-ICUs in Intensive Care," was commissioned in 2006 to determine whether tele-ICUs could be the solution to America's growing shortage of available critical care physicians as the population ages. In the next 20 years, there will be a tripling of the capacity need of current ICUs, and the number of intensivists will not keep up with this staggering demand. Given the study's compelling clinical and financial results, the authors recommend that hospitals with 10 or more ICU beds should adopt this program.At Advanced ICU Care, we have been helping our partner hospitals improve their clinical and financial performance since 2005 and are the largest and most experienced independent organization providing remote ICU management services in the country. Our programs have a strong record of enabling our clients to significantly reduce mortality and ICU length of stay, while growing admission volumes.

Advanced ICU Care's 24/7 program delivers much more than tele-ICU monitoring; we combine the expertise of over 20 board-certified, fellowship-trained intensivists, seasoned nurse practitioners and CCRN-certified nurses, with over 100 years of ICU management leadership along with the on-going data-driven Advanced ICU Care Performance Improvement Program, all supported by around-the-clock professional technical support. We have implemented our tele-ICU program at 22 hospitals in 10 states.

You can find the complete study online here.

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