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ST. LOUIS (May 21, 2008) – Advanced ICU Care, a medical services company delivering board-certified critical care physicians (intensivists) and nurses to hospital ICU patients using telemedicine technology, announced today that it has promoted Mikhail Averbukh to Director – Information Technology.
In this role, Averbukh will continue to lead program configuration, implementation, and software and hardware support initiatives for the company’s eICU® system, a clinical management and communications technology which allows for the remote care and monitoring of critically ill patients. He will also oversee technical support, clinical system training and education efforts, and technical implementation processes at Advanced ICU Care’s client hospitals.
“Mikhail has done a tremendous job as the primary technical point of contact for our client hospitals, our clinical team here and our technology partners,” said David Schopp, president and chief operating officer of Advanced ICU Care. “As our company has grown to deliver intensivist care across the country, Mikhail’s leadership qualities and expertise in systems management have been invaluable.”
Averbukh has 10 years of information technology experience, serving a wide variety of corporations in industries such as healthcare, financial services and agriculture. He received his master’s degree in information management from Washington University, a master’s degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a bachelor’s degree from Gorky State Technical University in Gorky, Russia.
About Advanced ICU Care
Advanced ICU Care® is a medical service company that provides high-quality
remote critical care to patients in the intensive care units (ICU) of community
hospitals. Through experienced clinicians, supported by cutting-edge telemedicine
technology, and a process improvement program, Advanced ICU Care provides
continuous ICU patient monitoring and improved care and safety outcomes
to critically ill patients across the country. Hospital ICUs
are linked with Advanced ICU Care’s eICU® Operations Center in St. Louis,
Missouri through a technology platform developed by VISICU, allowing Advanced
ICU Care’s board-certified intensivists (critical care medicine physicians)
and critical care nurses to monitor hospital ICU patients from a central
location. Founded to improve access to critical care expertise, deliver
best practices to patients by leveraging telemedicine technology, and establish
intensivists as the standard of care, the Advanced ICU Care program delivers
around-the-clock critical care specialists, dramatically improving patient
care. For more information, visit: www.icumedicine.com
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