Critical Care, Critical Choices: The Case for Tele-ICUs in Intensive Care

Partners/ Authors	Sheila Fifer, PhD, Wendy Everett, ScD, Mitchell Adams, Jeff Vincequere
Start & end date	2010
Outcome	The study found that with the use of tele-ICUs: 1. Patient mortality decreased significantly. At UMMMC, ICU mortality rates decreased more than 20 percent even as the severity of the patients’ conditions rose significantly, and the ICU patients’ total hospital mortality rates declined 13 percent. At Community Hospital 1, ICU adjusted mortality decreased 36 percent. 2. Patients’ stays in the ICU were shorter. 3. Tele-ICUs have a rapid payback of investment for hospitals. 4. Tele-ICUs have substantial financial benefit to payers. If tele-ICU systems were broadly and effectively implemented in Massachusetts, 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.
Website	https://www.documents.philips.com/doclib/enc/fetch/2000/4504/577242/577243/577246/5481440/New_England_Healthcare_Institute_Critical_Care%2C_Critical_Choices.pdf

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