HealthcareDive reporter Meg Bryant’s article outlines how hospitals and health systems are leveraging tele-ICU to deliver care by remote intensivists to their sickest patients. Bryant details how the current – andprojected – supply of intensivist physicians does not meet the demand for their specialized expertise in critical care 
medicine. This disparity, she continues, is likely to grow due to higher demand as a result of research and recommendations from leading healthcare organizations such as HIMSS and The Leapfrog Group.
The article is supported by insights from organizations on the front line of tele-ICU, including Advanced ICU Care’s CEO Lou Silverman, who provides insight to how the availability of intensivists at the bedside – or lack thereof – influences a hospital’s utilization of tele-ICU.
The Healthcare Dive piece is another item in a mounting body of articles, studies, and publications on the subject of tele-ICU, its growing adoption, the variety of implementation models that make it available to hospitals and systems of all types and sizes, and positive impact on critical care – a testament that tele-ICU has moved beyond early adoption to become the standard of critical care.
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