[telemedicine] More Hospitals Onboard with E-ICU Technology

[Medical Informatics News]

More and more hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to
monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously. A nationwide shortage of intensive care specialists
is the main motivator behind this trend.* Kaleida Health
System, the parent company of Buffalo General Hospital, has recently
adopted the “enhanced intensive care” technology known as eICU.


According to an article from the Associated Press today, health professionals were monitoring 58 patients at two
hospitals via screens that displayed patients’ diagnosis and progress, doctors’ notes and vital signs from the Kaleida
centralized control station. The monitoring professionals are able to alert those on duty on-site at the hospitals
through videoconferencing equipment at the nurses’ stations.


Kaleida expects to bring its three other hospitals online in the spring and is investing $4 million in personnel and
equipment. The technology by Baltimore-based VISICU Inc. is in use
at least 18 hospital systems nationwide, according to Kaleida, which this summer became the ninth system to go
online.

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