Electronic intensive care units (eICUs) allow highly skilled nurses to monitor patients in multiple locations (e.g. different hospitals) and assist nurses on the floor.  Best practices for this technology are still evolving and this piece presents the most experienced advice in the field.  In fact, these best practices are equally valuable for conceiving of a hospital as a distributed network, with virtual rounding and hands off care, for patients in their own homes or skilled nursing facilities.   MORE