GE Healthcare Powers First-of-Its Kind Virtual ICU, Creating Access to Critical Care Specialists throughout State of Oregon
16 Dezember 2020 - 3:12PM
Business Wire
- “Virtual ICU” (VICU) will extend the critical care expertise of
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to patients in rural
communities, where specialists are not otherwise available.
- The VICU provides critical care specialists at OHSU with
digital tools to deploy hospital-defined care protocols to remotely
identify changes in patient status, respond in real time, and
support local clinicians caring for patients in their local
communities.
- GE Healthcare’s Mural Virtual Care solution seamlessly
integrates and embeds into the workflow of the VICU, which
eliminates workflow inefficiencies like double documentation in the
electronic medical record (EMR); collects and delivers disparate
data to clinicians in a single, unified view, and provides
real-time analytics and reports to drive continuous improvements
and help improve outcomes.
GE Healthcare today announced a multi-year agreement with Oregon
Health & Science University (OHSU), Oregon’s only academic
health center, that will allow OHSU to oversee and help provide
care to ICU patients across eight hospital sites via a “Virtual
ICU” (VICU), using the GE Healthcare Mural Virtual Care
Solution.
The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting a pre-existing shortage of
critical care specialists, nurses and other clinicians across the
United States and around the world, according to a recent report
from the RAND Corporation. Furthermore, a 100-bed hospital may have
only one intensivist who can care for patients requiring complex
care.
In response to the critical care shortage and in collaboration
with OHSU, GE Healthcare developed a customized solution of care
workflows that powers the OHSU VICU. The VICU benefits patients by
keeping them in their local communities near family and friends;
supports local economies by maintaining resources, such as
ambulances and revenue, in the immediate area; and improves
efficiency by allocating hospital beds, resources and staff for the
most critical patients.
“Through the Virtual ICU, we can supplement the local expertise
in a variety of ways and durations – from a single shift to several
a week – bringing much-needed relief and support to the clinicians
on the ground,” said Senior Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer of OHSU Healthcare Joe E. Ness, M.H.A., R.Ph. “The VICU
allows us to execute our vision of increasing the level of care in
community hospitals, allowing patients across the state of Oregon
to receive the care they need closer to home while reducing
unnecessary transfers and optimizing ICU capacity in the area.”
Providing actionable data
The GE Healthcare platform that enables the OHSU VICU is called
the “Mural Virtual Care Solution (Mural),” which integrates data
from multiple systems and devices to digitize the hospital’s best
practices and clinical protocols, and provide a comprehensive,
real-time view of patient status that is scalable across a selected
care area, hospital, or entire health system.
“I can fully focus on the patient – who may be physically
hundreds of miles away -- in real time, by watching vital signs,
lab values, waveforms and other parameters,” said OHSU Associate
Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and TeleICU
Medical Director Marshall Lee, M.D. “And by enabling audio and
visual support in the patient room, I can virtually visit and
collaborate with the local, bedside team.”
Mural will also support the OHSU goal of enhancing the quality
of care throughout the system by providing analytics on clinical
information, such as minutiae ventilation data and metrics on
clinical and operational best practices, including pain, delirium
and agitation management. Data tracked and generated by the VICU
translates into metrics – such as length of stay and average
ventilation days per patient -- that hospitals can use to refine
operations to support improved patient outcomes and increased
efficiency.
“We are pleased to offer this flexible platform that delivers
data from devices and systems regardless of manufacturer, going
beyond the capabilities of the traditional tele-ICU,” said Tom
Westrick, President and CEO of Life Care Solutions at GE
Healthcare. “We listened to clinicians and designed this solution
to allow specialists access to multiple intensive care unit (ICU)
patients in one central place, allowing health systems to expand
their virtual care settings as their needs evolve.”
GE Healthcare’s Mural can be customized based on specific
clinical workflows, enabling intensivists and advanced nurses in a
central location to support bedside teams as they care for patients
in their communities. Mural can also support compliance
documentation on healthcare associated infections (HAIs), and
prevention measures such as thromboprophylaxis, stress ulcer
prophylaxis and glucose management.
Enabled by Edison, GE Healthcare’s intelligence platform, Mural
can be deployed on-premise via GE Healthcare’s Edge infrastructure
or on the cloud, depending on customer preference and need.
Currently available in the United States, Canada, China, Korea,
U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, Mural is designed to help reduce the time
for clinical teams to deliver responsive, timely, and compliant
care by digitizing hospital defined protocols, care pathways, and
Early Warning Scores (EWS).1
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare is the $16.7 billion healthcare business of GE
(NYSE: GE). As a leading global medical technology and digital
solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables clinicians to make
faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data
analytics, applications and services, supported by its Edison
intelligence platform. With over 100 years of healthcare industry
experience and around 50,000 employees globally, the company
operates at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision
health, digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and
improve outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and
researchers around the world.
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