Tele ER and Tele ICU

Intensive Care Units (ICU) and Emergency Rooms (ER) are usually busy departments in a hospital, and this has been especially aggravated due to Covid. Using telemedicine can be useful to address this and improve hospital capabilities and outcomes. A Tele-ICU (or ER), is a centralized model of care where remote providers monitor ICU (or ER) patients continuously, providing both structured consultations and reactive alerts. Touted by many as an obvious solution to chronic shortages of intensivists, the practice of Tele-ICU/ ER remained slow to take off until the Covid-19 pandemic. However, a number of barriers remain, for example, upfront costs to implement a tele-ICU can range between $50,000 and $100,000 per ICU bed. If you are a virtual care provider, healthcare provider, payer, MedTech or you are simply interested in the topic, join us in this informal discussion where we will talk about: