Telehealth ICUs

Telehealth did not reduce death risk linked to mechanical ventilation

April 4, 2024 - Availability of telehealth-based critical care did not improve outcomes among patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, a new study reveals. Published in the Journal of Critical Care, the study assessed whether the availability of tele-critical care affects outcomes among mechanically ventilated patients. The study authors note that...


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South Georgia Hospitals to Gain Access to Remote Monitoring Services

by Mark Melchionna

To expand critical care access, Emory Healthcare will provide Memorial Hospital and Manor and Coffee Regional Medical Center with access to its electronic intensive care unit (eICU), giving patients...

How a Not-So-New Concept Buoyed Mayo, Advocate Aurora Amid a Crisis

by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual care has helped health systems solve a myriad of problems during surges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did digital healthcare help organizations care for patients outside their hospitals, but it also helped enhance critical...

PA Health System Uses College Students to Support New Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

With its nursing corps stretched thin, a Pennsylvania health system is using college students to support its new in-patient telehealth program. The St. Luke’s University Health Network has hired...

OSF Healthcare Develops Telehealth Protocols for Sepsis Treatment

by Eric Wicklund

OSF Healthcare and Northwestern University have developed a protocol for using telehealth to treat patients with sepsis in rural hospitals. Using a four-year, $750,000 grant from the Agency for...

Chicago Health System Expands Pediatric Telemedicine Platform

by Eric Wicklund

A Chicago health system is expanding its telemedicine platform to give patients and care providers at two outlying hospitals on-demand access to emergency pediatric services. Pediatricians at...

NH Hospital Uses Telehealth to Support Difficult Deliveries

by Eric Wicklund

A telemedicine network launched by Massachusetts General Hospital to provide on-demand neonatal support has expanded into New Hampshire. Dover-based Wentworth-Douglass Hospital is now connected with...

Using Telehealth to Make Patient Rounding More Efficient and Effective

by Eric Wicklund

For hospitals across the country, rounding is both a vital and complex process, pulling together staff and specialists from across the enterprise to collaborate on patient care. At Franciscan Health,...

VA, DoD Launch National Telehealth Projects for Critical Care

by Eric Wicklund

Federal officials are partnering with several health systems and telehealth companies to develop a nationwide telecritical care network, including a separate telemedicine platform for the Department of...

mHealth Sensors Help Hospitals Monitor Vitals in In-Patient Units

by Eric Wicklund

A Michigan hospital is using mHealth sensors attached to a patient’s bed to remotely monitor vital signs, and executives see a future for the telehealth platform that goes beyond the success...

Telecritical Care Expands Telehealth From the ICU to Where It’s Needed

by Eric Wicklund

As healthcare providers launch telehealth programs to improve critical care management and coordination, they’re seeing value far beyond the ICU. Indeed, as the coronavirus pandemic taxes...

Johns Hopkins, UMMC Receive FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Program Funding

by Eric Wicklund

Five large health systems are among the 53 providers included in the Federal Communications Commission’s eight round of COVID-19 Telehealth Program grants. Drawing from a $200 billion fund...

Minnesota Children’s Launches Telehealth Partnership With 6 Hospitals

by Eric Wicklund

Minnesota’s only pediatric hospital is launching a telehealth program to extend neonatal care to six hospitals across the state. Children’s Minnesota, the seventh largest pediatric health...

Intermountain Touts the Successes of its NICU Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

An effective telemedicine platform will not only improve outcomes and reduce wasteful spending, but give smaller, rural hospitals the expertise to treat more of their patients and reduce stressful...

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