- Remote patient monitoring: RPM leverages connected medical devices and videoconferencing and collaboration platforms to manage patients in their homes. There’s growth in programs to support chronic disease management and care coordination after hospitalization.
- Telesitting and virtual nursing: Qualified teams can monitor multiple patients remotely and support bedside care teams on administrative and repetitive tasks.
- Virtual rounding: Physicians can check in with patients in a more timely and efficient process while following physical distancing protocols as needed.
- eICUs: An electronic intensive care unit could help an organization establish a centralized clinical command operation to provide care to at-risk patients and support understaffed teams.