Graphical Dashboard Advances eICU Telehealth

A new graphical dashboard seamlessly blends medicine, transformative services, and technology to address intensive care unit (ICU) physician and nurse shortages, dramatically improving access to and quality of patient care.

The Philips Healthcare (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) IntelliSpace eCareManager 3.9 health care platform is designed to help clinicians prioritize patient needs and streamline in-hospital care. Over 100 clinical rules analyze, process, and visualize complex, real time clinical data in a digestible form. The platform is powered by orb, a sophisticated software dashboard, which integrates practical data with visual technology, creating circles that represent individual patients and their health status. By viewing these circles, clinicians can determine, at a glance, important patient or population-level information, such as which patients are in need of immediate care versus others who might be ready for hospital discharge.


Orb also helps clinicians prioritize information that was previously unavailable due to the massive amount of data created by a single patient, whether they are providing care at the bedside, from the nurses’ station, or hundreds of miles away from a remote, centralized telehealth care team. The platform also enables proportional population management to leverage scarce resources, provides proactive management of patients to avoid complications, visualizes key physiologic indicators for overall patient health/progression, optimizes existing care-provider staff, and incorporates single-point visualization of data otherwise fragmented across many systems.

“Health reform places priority on improving the quality of patient care, and key performance indicators such as patient mortality, length of stay, hospital-acquired infections, and hospital readmissions across health system enterprises,” said Lori Lazzara, vice president and general manager of connected care solutions at Philips Healthcare. “Philips eICU Program customers monitor more than 350,000 ICU patients every year, and orb demonstrates our commitment to connected care, giving clinicians the flexibility to manage a large population of patients without losing the individualized treatment needs of each person.”

Hospital systems participating in peer-reviewed studies on Tele-ICU programs have shown a reduction in mortality of 20% and length of stay by 30%, and cost reductions in one of the highest cost areas for any hospital. Currently, Philips eICU customers have oversight for nearly 7,000 ICU beds, with approximately 150 patients being monitored in an average Tele-ICU simultaneously, with larger sites caring for over 400 patients on any given day.

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