… 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.
From the Kaleida control station Monday, health professionals were monitoring 58 patients at two hospitals via screens that displayed patients’ diagnosis and progress, doctors’ notes and real-time vital statistics like heart rate and blood pressure. The remote caregivers alerted their onsite counterparts to changes or potential problems through videoconferencing at the nurses’ stations.
Kaleida, which expects to bring its three other hospitals online in the spring, stressed the technology is meant to enhance, not replace, onsite care by allowing doctors to more quickly catch and respond to trouble.
From the Kaleida control station Monday, health professionals were monitoring 58 patients at two hospitals via screens that displayed patients’ diagnosis and progress, doctors’ notes and real-time vital statistics like heart rate and blood pressure. The remote caregivers alerted their onsite counterparts to changes or potential problems through videoconferencing at the nurses’ stations.More at Visicu, the company that has created eICU technology…
(hat tip: symtym)