Enhancing Staffing & Assisting Physicians with Virtual Critical Care & Tele-Nursing
Telemed services are at the intersection of healthcare and technology, which continues to evolve at an incredible pace.
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The Future of Telemed Services: Emerging Trends and Technologies
Telemed services are at the intersection of healthcare and technology, which continues to evolve at an incredible pace.
Tele ICU Care ROI: Unlocking Value and Cost Savings for Hospitals
Tele ICU care presents substantial cost-saving opportunities to budget-conscious hospitals and healthcare facilities of all sizes.
ICU Telehealth by Intercept to Address Acute Respiratory Failure
ICU Telehealth services are well positioned to provide solutions for the increasing costs and complications tied to the growing medical problem of Acute Respiratory Failure (ARF) across the United States.
ICU Patient Monitoring Solutions By Intercept
ICU patient monitoring is set to address ongoing labor shortages being felt by many remote and rural critical care facilities in America.
ICU Telemedicine Reduces Interhospital ICU Transfers in the Veterans Health Administration
After adjusting for demographics, illness severity, admission diagnosis, and facility, ICU telemedicine was associated with overall reduced transfers … this reduction occurred in patients with moderate, moderate to high, and high illness severity and in nonsurgical patients. Transfers decreased in patients admitted with GI and respiratory admission diagnoses..
eICU Program Favorably Affects Clinical and Economic Outcomes
The addition of a supplemental, telemedicine-based, remote intensivist program was associated with improved clinical outcomes and hospital financial performance… telemedicine may provide a means for hospitals to achieve quality improvements associated with intensivist care using fewer intensivists.
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Implementing Telemedicine in the ICU
In the absence of a defined insurer reimbursement model for care delivery, revenue sources for a tele-ICU system depend entirely on the organizational structure of the system/network and variable contractual relationships between entities. A few different revenue models appear to currently exist.
