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7/27/2010
Atlantic General Hospital Goes Live with eCare Remote ICU Monitoring
Innovative eICU® Program Improves Care with VISICU Technology
On July 27, Atlantic General Hospital will join four other Maryland eCare hospitals who have implemented the VISICU eICU® technology, which allows for remote monitoring of its most critically ill patients. Read more (PDF)
3/9/2010
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL LAUNCHES ELECTRONIC MONITORING SYSTEM IN INTENSIVE CARE CENTER
St.Mary's Hospital went live with its new eCare system this month, which is anelectronic monitoring technology in the hospital?s Intensive Care Center(ICC). The program complementslocal care utilizing critical care physicians and nurses based at ChristianaCare Health System through a monitoring center in Delaware. Read more (PDF)
9/29/2009
TELE-ICU PROGRAM EXPANDS, CONNECTING MORE MARYLAND ICU PATIENTS TO REMOTE CRITICAL CARE STAFF
Second Maryland eCare Hospital goes “live” and Seventh Hospital Joins
WASHINGTON DC – Today, Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland will connect patients and staff in its Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to a team of critical care physicians and nurses almost 100 miles away enhancing patient care. As a member of Maryland eCare, Peninsula Regional becomes the second Maryland hospital to adopt this innovative tele-ICU. At the same time, Union Hospital in Elkton has signed on to bring the eCare program to their patients in 2010. Read more (PDF)
5/14/2009
MARYLAND ICU PATIENTS CONNECTED TO REMOTE CRITICAL CARE STAFF, IMPROVING QUALITY AND SAFETY
The First Maryland eCare Hospital goes "live"
WASHINGTON DC – Starting Monday, May 18, Maryland intensive care patients will be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away. A year after announcing six, independent Maryland hospitals, with a $3 million grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, were joining together to provide state-of-the-art critical care to their patients, the first hospital, Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, Md., is fully online with the sophisticated care system.
"We are thrilled to bring rural Maryland patients this enhanced level of care," said Dr. Thomas Lawrence, Board Chair of Maryland eCare and Chief Medical Officer for Peninsula Regional Medical Center, an eCare member. "This is an exciting step towards improving the already high quality of care for all Marylanders." Read more (PDF)
4/28/2008
RURAL MARYLAND HOSPITALS FORM UNPRECEDENTED
COLLABORATIVE TO IMPROVE PATIENT CARE
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Innovative eICU® Program Unites Hospitals to Reduce Critical Care Physician Shortage, Improve Care with VISICU Technology
WASHINGTON DC – Today, six hospitals serving patients in rural Maryland announced plans to improve the quality of patient care by implementing the VISICU eICU® Program in each of their intensive care units. Made possible by a $3 million grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), the eICU® Program marries medicine and technology to bring critical care physicians, also known as intensivists, to areas facing a shortage in this specialty.
“This technology means that patients in under-served communities will still be able to access intensive care services in their local hospitals,” said Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD, District 5), Majority Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives. “I welcome the contributions that Maryland eCare will make in the communities of the 5th District and throughout the state of Maryland and laud this new collaborative for taking this innovative approach to patient care” Read more (PDF)
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