Remote Patient Monitoring is Extending Beyond Tele ICU

Remote Patient Monitoring’s Role in Tele-ICU

Remote Patient Monitoring helps focus and develop what is used for many patients, including those with chronic diseases, post-released patients, or those who require constant monitoring. Unique technologies such as wearable devices or home health equipment can track important vitals such as heart rate, blood pressure, and glucose levels. The main goal is to continue monitoring health data over time to keep an eye on trends and predict potential issues in a patient’s health. This can be beneficial for early detection of potential health risks and managing long-term health conditions.

The tele-ICU (Intensive Care Unit) focus is designed for critically sick patients who are in the ICU. Tele-ICU allows for specialists, assistants, and doctors to share input without needing to be bedside or even onsite. Audio video, electronic charting, and advanced real-time monitoring systems that can track data allow doctors and nurses to examine and remotely monitor the patient in real time. It can enhance patient care by always offering constant vigilance and support. Healthcare organizations that expand their tele-ICU across all beds of their hospital, greatly increase physician and nurse efficiency which is crucial with the current doctor and nurse shortage. Providing virtual nursing and virtual physician technologies, all clinicians can engage in remote patient monitoring. Remote Patient Monitoring is not just for Intensivists anymore. In fact, with today’s technologies, modern tele-ICU solutions can easily be expanded to all beds in hospitals and into skilled nursing facilities and for hospital at home and home care.

The Change of Remote Patient Monitoring and Tele-ICU in the Past Decade

In the past decade, remote patient monitoring has been able to evolve from a small niche medical tool to a cornerstone in healthcare delivery. Playing a critical role in critical and chronic diseases such as diabetes, acute kidney injury, sepsis, and others. It has allowed for notification, management ,and monitoring of hospital patients and recently discharged patients. These advancements have improved patient outcomes, reduced re-admission rates, clinician job satisfaction, and contributed to the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Advancements in technologies, clinical data analytics an remote patient monitoring have improved the ability to predict , indicate, and prevent adverse health events by analyzing patterns and trends in health data.

Tele-ICU has also undergone significant growth over the past ten years driven by advancements in technology and the global shift to more digital and remote healthcare solutions. The expansion of coverage, wider acceptance, and global reach have greatly affected the growth of the tele-ICU in the realm of digital health. The advancements in these tele-ICU areas are beginning to expand to smaller, rural, and community hospitals, providing critical care and expertise that might not be available locally prior to these advancements. Tele-ICU has grown significantly over the past decade and is integral to critical care. Its future seems poised for further technological integration, expansion in scope and reach,.

With the expansion beyond the tele-ICU, remote patient monitoring solutions have become more user-friendly and more accessible for clinicians. Additionally, patients have become more encouraged, which leads to higher patient engagement and participation in their healthcare. This technological surge has made remote patient monitoring more affordable and accessible, especially in remote, underfunded, and underserved areas.

Historically, physicians and nurses have been overlooked, even ignored with the advancements and deployments of EHRs and other IT technologies. This has led to the rise of ‘pajama time’ for doctors and an all-time low in job satisfaction for both nurses and physicians. Unfortunately, it has also led to a massive contributor to the shortage of clinicians in the U.S. from the ‘Great Resignation’.

With today’s data availability, advanced analytics, and data visualization from companies like Ambient Clinical Analytics, remote patient monitoring in tele-ICU has hurdled outdated audio visual tele—ICU technologies and new technologies reflect the significant advancements in solutions like AWARE. The advancements allow for enhanced patient care, reducing the need for in-person consults. With modern tele-ICU technology doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals become more efficient by handling more patients and reducing overall workload in and out of the tele-ICU. This expanded offering extends remote patient monitoring beyond the ICU and drives major efficiency and job satisfaction improvements for doctor and nurse.

How do Remote Patient Monitoring and Tele-ICU come Together to Battle Sepsis?

Remote patient monitoring and tele-ICU are two key pieces of technology in today’s healthcare delivery. Together they offer a sophisticated and affordable approach to monitoring. Delivering a full spectrum of patients in variety of care locations; critical care, general inpatient, skilled nursing facilities, at home monitoring, and hospital at home to a caregiver regardless of the clinician’s location. Remote patient monitoring can manage early detection and drive the initial response and best practices for any clinical condition. Yesterday’s tele-ICU provides intensive care monitoring and audio visual consultation with a Intensivist.
Today’s tele-ICU combined with remote patient monitoring offers so much more than legacy tele-ICU solutions. Pairing tele-ICU and remote patient monitoring technologies with advanced clinical analytics, data visualization and expanding outside of the ICU enhances the patient experience, patient outcomes, and physician and nurse job efficiency and satisfaction. Most importantly, remote patient monitoring solutions with clinical notification, continuous monitoring, and guidance on adherence to evidence based and hospital-based protocols will be a lifesaving event for many patients.

Closing

The integration of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and tele-ICU represents a shift in modern healthcare, focusing on the power of technology to extend the reach of medical expertise and enhance patient care. From managing chronic diseases, such as sepsis, and postoperative recovery with remote patient monitoring to providing critical care to those who require tele-ICU support, these technologies collectively signal a new era in healthcare delivery. The industry will continue to navigate the challenges of providing high-quality healthcare. The continued evolution and integration of remote patient monitoring and tele-ICU will undoubtedly play a pivotal role in shaping the future of medical care, making it more accessible, efficient, and patient-centered.

Solution

The AWARE™ platform puts real-time and automated patient monitoring, clinical analytics, audio-visual, data visualization, and decision support at your fingertips, so you can rapidly detect and treat conditions, reduce errors, and save lives. Ambient Clinical Analytics combines data from patient bedside devices, wearables, your EHR, and other remote patient monitoring devices and using deep analytics, indicative algorithms, data visualization, and audio-visual tools helps you detect and treat patient conditions with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. Ambient’s AWARE™ software platform, that includes Sepsis DART™, is an FDA Class II Cleared and CE Mark Certification solution. In addition, Ambient Clinical Analytics has achieved ISO13485:2016 certification, which is an internationally recognized quality standard specific to the medical device industry. AWARE™ solutions are accessible from anywhere, including the bedside, nursing stations, clinical command centers, skilled nursing facilities, provider homes, and other remote locations. Ambient Warning and Response Evaluation (AWARE™) helps you maintain clear situational awareness and respond early and proactively to patient conditions no matter where they are. It provides life-saving information. Stay steps ahead with:

Virtual Nursing & Virtual Physician Solutions

Real-time remote patient monitoring

Real-time advanced tele-ICU solutions

Real-time & automated Smart Notifications™

Clinical analytics and data visualization

Clinical decision support and reports

Sepsis DART™ automates early detection of sepsis and other conditions, providing smart notifications, patient monitoring, and treatment bundle reminders to ensure timely care and help eliminate errors. With Ambient’s Sepsis DART™, you can automatically detect sepsis and rapidly deliver timely treatment that dramatically improves your compliance and mortality rates.
For more information on how Sepsis DART™ helps you with sepsis bundle compliance, please visit our website here or contact tim.kuebelbeck@ambientclinical.com.

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