Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring Rely on Wireless

The healthcare products business of electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics offers an ICU (intensive care unit) remote monitoring system called eICU. Originally developed by Visicu, Inc., a Baltimore, Maryland medical information technology company that is now part of Phillips, eICU is a combination of software, video and audio feeds and real-time patient vital statistics that hooks patients in ICUs in multiple hospitals to central monitoring facilities manned by ICU specialists. A specialist at the central location mans a standing desk outfitted with a cutting edge graphical dashboard called orb that displays patient data, including real-time video and audio for up to 150 ICU beds at a time. The system ranks patients according to their conditions and flags gravely ill patients in red so that their progress can be more easily monitored. Indications such as changes in blood pressure alert the specialist who then contacts the nurse or physician on duty to treat the patient accordingly. As of mid-2015, eICU was in use in more than 350 hospitals across more than 40 health systems around the world.

Hospitals that have eICU have experienced significant cost savings since the system cuts the average ICU stay from 4.4 days to 3.6 by lowering the instances of complications such as pneumonia and infections (these conditions generally occur when patients are not closely monitored by ICU specialists). The Leapfrog Group estimates that 54,000 patients per year could be saved if every U.S. ICU were monitored by specialists.

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