Secure Telehealth provides an online video conferencing service to Intensivists for remote critical care telemedicine without the costly command center.

Intensivists use Secure Telehealth video conferencing and the Hospital's existing Physician's Portal to provide effective midnight-shift ICU coverage.

How it works:  Intensivists remotely monitor patients and consult with ICU nurses and Hospitalists at multiple hospitals using PC's, webcams, and Secure Telehealth's online cloud-computing based video conferencing service, along with the intensivist's existing EHR software and Physician's Portal. 

High-quality, full-screen video at 30 frames per second allows "face-to-face" consultation with attending physicians and ICU nurses. 

Secure Telehealth is an online service - Intensivists may remotely monitor their patients from any location with broadband Internet access.   Secure Telehealth provides its own encryption security, so on-call intensivists may provide Tele-ICU consults and respond to midnight-shift pages from their homes.

Secure Telehealth, used in conjunction with your Hospital's Physician's Portal, provides a cost-effective alternative to costly Tele-ICU command centers costing millions of dollars. 

Download our Tele-ICU Brochure

Did you know?  A Masachusetts study published in December, 2010, found that with the use of Tele-ICU's:

1. Patient mortality decreased significantly.

2. Patients' stays in the ICU were shorter.

3. Tele-ICU's have a rapid payback of investment for hospitals.

4. Tele-ICU's have substantial financial benefit to payers.

The study concluded:  "If tele-ICU systems were broadly and effectively implemented in Massachusetts, it is conservatively calculated that more than 350 additional lives could be saved each year, the hospitals would benefit financially, and the potential savings for payers would exceed $122 million annually."

Read the December, 2010 report of the New England HealthCare Institute: Critical Care, Critical choices:  The case for Tele-ICUs in Intensive Care

Read the American Journal of Critical Care article:   Intensive care unit nurses at one healthcare system said that personally knowing the physician providing overnight telemedicine coverage was important, although actual exposure to telemedicine among the respondents was quite low, according to a survey out of the University of Pennsylvania. Being personally acquainted with the telemedicine doctor was important to the critical care nurses both in general and in terms of how likely the nurse was to communicate with the telemedicine staff, reported Margaret Mullen-Fortino, RN, MSN, from the university's Penn e-lert eICU, and colleagues, in the American Journal of Critical Care.

Read the Beckers Hospital Review article from Feb 12, 2011 entitled:  "5 Ways a Telemedicine Partnership can Help Hospitals Save"

Contact Secure Telehealth to conduct a free live demonstration from your Windows PC.  Secure Telehealth delivers the benefits of a Tele-ICU without the costly command center.

Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Call Secure Telehealth  412 837 9320

Peek-a-boo - ICU! 

Click here to read  the March 2, 2011 article in Computerworld which tells the story of a Tele-ICU implementation in Rockledge, Florida.