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Early adopters offer evidence to prove that virtual ICU systems could be an antidote for the high cost of providing care in ICUs and other healthcare settings.
Despite studies showing that care by intensivists (physicians specially trained in critical care medicine) improves the quality of care in the ICU, just one in five ICUs is staffed with intensivists.
Sentara became the first client for the electronic ICU (eICU) -- a technology that combines software, video feeds, and real-time patient information to let intensive-care specialists at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital cover 11 ICUs at six hospitals, spread 60 miles apart, around the clock.
The eICU technology is a growing trend in the nation's hospitals, which are struggling to improve care in intensive-care units while coping with a severe shortage of intensive-care medical specialists.
Kaleida Health System is among an expanding number of hospital systems adopting "enhanced intensive care" technology -- known as eICU® -- that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much like an air traffic controller keeps track of multiple planes.
Telemedicine technology, an electronic monitoring system for intensive care units may not be the most glamorous medical device ever invented, but it may be the most crucial.
With technology making it possible for off-site clinicians to watch over critically ill patients miles away, a virtual ICU may soon become reality at your hospital or a facility near you.
Studies by the Leapfrog Group, a consortium of major employers, suggest that in ICUs run by intensivists, the death rate drops by 40 percent, equal to about 54,000 patients a year.
At the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, where Dr. Cooke works, two new "eICU" stations cover six units in two different hospitals, and plans call for an expansion into all 30 of its hospitals.