Tele ICU

Electronic intensive care units—which use telemonitoring to round on critical ill patients—made slow progress in hospitals before the Accountable Care Act, but now may be picking up speed.  This piece lists six best practices in this telemed application, pointing out that ICU management decisions are facing  “two strong trends: the increasing number and severity of critical care patients as the US population ages, and the decreasing supply of critical care physicians available to manage the growing number of ICU patients.”  ICU spending in the US currently exceeds $100B.  MORE

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