Report Supports Telemedicine Use in ICU

The Hospitalist
December 15, 2010

A new report that outlines the potential care delivery improvements and cost savings of telemedicine might also be a road map to increased efficiency for hospitalists, according to one of the study’s authors and a former SHM president.

Telemedicine "simplifies their life," says Mitchell Adams, AB, MBA, executive director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) in Boston, which coauthored "Critical Care, Critical Choices: The Case for Tele-ICUs in Intensive Care" with the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) in Cambridge. "It means you have you less complications, you have less work. You have an intensivist looking over your shoulder, making sure you’re doing it right."

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