eICU, a registered trademark of VISICU, Inc., is a term used to describe telemedicine technology that combines clinical management software with remote-care tools – including patient data and video feeds – to allow intensivists and critical care nurses to remotely care for patients in hospital ICUs. Data is collected on a continuous basis and trends in patient status are collated and responded to in real time. This allows for urgent and emergent issues to be addressed immediately. The eICU technology platform was developed by VISICU to help leverage scarce intensivist resources and to remotely direct patient care. eICU centers are staffed by intensivists and critical care nurses who can monitor and care for a large number of ICU patients in multiple hospital locations, thousands of miles away.