Clinical and Financial Benefits of Tele-ICU at Advocate

Michael Ries MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP, Medical Director, Adult Critical Care and eICU, and Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, VP, Adult Critical Care & Medical Prof. Affairs, Advocate Health Care. If used properly, tele-ICU can enable a healthcare organization to garner significant clinical and financial benefits. Dr. Ries and Cindy discuss how tele-ICU has enabled Advocate Health Care to realize some of these benefits. They describe the strategies through examples of how they integrated tele-ICU technology to consistently provide evidence-based best practices to our population of critical care patients.