Philips teams with University of Kentucky's UK HealthCare to power
state’s only eICU Clinical Command Center
April 15, 2020
- Academic medical center leverages Philips tele-ICU technology
to enhance clinician experience and help improve outcomes for ICU
patients in Kentucky
- Application of virtual monitoring will help aid University of
Kentucky (UK) Healthcare’s teams in care provision for COVID-19
patients
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Lexington, KY, U.S. –
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health
technology, and UK HealthCare, the clinical enterprise of the
University of Kentucky, today announced a collaboration to create
Kentucky’s only operating clinical command center for tele-critical
care and operational optimization. Leveraging Philips’ acute
telehealth platform, eCareManager, the academic medical center is
implementing a centralized virtual care model to help providers
detect risk of patient deterioration so they can intervene earlier
and help improve care outcomes for the organization’s sickest
patients.
Philips’ eICU Program is built around eCareManager, which uses
advanced analytics and AI to synthesize patient data and deliver
actionable insights to support proactive care. Using this
comprehensive system, University of Kentucky (UK) HealthCare will
provide 24/7 remote monitoring and access to specialists for
patients in the neurological, trauma, surgery, post-anesthesia
care, medical intensive care, emergency department and
cardiovascular patient care venues. The institution also aims to
improve bed utilization and patient flow across its 160 ICU beds at
two hospitals.
Since COVID-19 is predominantly a respiratory illness, patients
with more severe cases may require ICU care. eCareManager acuity
based scoring tools monitor a patient’s condition to detect subtle
deteriorations prior to becoming adverse events. Predictive
AI-enabled algorithms such as Sentry Score, designed to focus on a
patients cardiovascular and Respiratory systems, provide clinicians
in the telehealth center with predictive insights into those
patients with the highest probability of requiring an intervention
in the next 60 minutes. As bed availability and critical decisions
on patient throughput are required, eCareManager integrates as part
of its Clinical Performance Applications Suite the Discharge
Readiness Score, a predictive algorithm that provides clinicians
objective scoring on a patients risk of death or readmission within
48 hours of a planned discharge.
“In these most challenging times, healthcare organizations need
digital technology to enhance the patient experience, improve
health outcomes, lower the cost of care, and enhance the work-life
of care providers now more than ever before,” said Roy Jakobs,
Chief Business Leader Connected Care, member of the Executive
Committee at Royal Philips. “Partnering with UK HealthCare to
address these concerns for the sickest patients demonstrates
Philips’ commitment to deliver unique approaches to help meet the
demand of healthcare’s greatest challenges.”
“This partnership is vital to our foundational vision of high
value care. Leveraging technology and highly developed
clinical algorithms will aid our progressive high-performance
health system,” said Dr. Colleen Swartz, Vice President for
Hospital Operations at UK HealthCare. “Especially during this time
of increased need for very specific isolation and care models in
managing COVID-19 patients, the application of virtual monitoring
will aid our teams in care provision. Philips is an essential
partner in our efforts to progress care across the state.”
First of its kind outcomes-based partnershipAs the shift
to value-based care and reimbursement is increasingly dependent
upon measurable outcomes, Philips and UK HealthCare plan to measure
Key Performance Indicator metrics and will work together to
identify improvement areas and generate mutual value. The
partnership between UK HealthCare and Philips is a pioneering model
in ICU telehealth, focused on addressing the quadruple aim by
measuring outcomes across both clinical and operational value. The
Philips eICU Program is uniquely positioned to partner with
customers on innovative outcomes-based models in acute care. With
the goal of improving patient care, clinical efficiencies, and ICU
quality best practices through telehealth, eICU Program outcomes
are demonstrated in peer reviewed publications.
As health systems seek to improve health outcomes, eICU programs
enable a co-located team of intensivists and critical care nurses
to remotely monitor patients in the ICU regardless of patient
location, helping to optimize care costs and enhance clinician and
patient satisfaction. Intensivists and nurses based in a telehealth
eICU hub are supported by high-definition cameras and
communications technology, predictive analytics, data visualization
and advanced reporting capabilities to support their frontline
colleagues.
Dashboards bring together data from the EMR and patient monitors
on the ICU floor, where advanced algorithms alert to signs of
deterioration helping the care team to proactively intervene at an
earlier stage. eICU programs have been the subject of peer-reviewed
literature since 2002, with outcomes data presenting clinical
benefits in mortality reduction and operational systems benefits
through increased throughput of ICU patients by reducing ICU
patient length of stay [1].
Philips is the global leader in centralized tele-critical care.
More than 20% of US adult ICU beds and 1 in 8 adult ICU patients
are monitored by a 24/7 continuous demand model powered by the eICU
Program, which combines A/V technology, predictive analytics, data
visualization and advanced reporting capabilities [2, 3]. The core
of this program is Philips eCareManager software, which delivers
need-to-know information to caregivers, empowering them to care for
the patients in a more proactive manner.
Philips tele-critical care platforms are available around the
globe with clinical informatics applications supporting bedside,
unit and virtual care delivery models. For more information on how
Philips is addressing the Coronavirus globally, please visit the
Philips centralized COVID-19 hub.
[1] Lilly CM, et al. A Multi-Center Study of ICU Telemedicine
Reengineering of Adult Critical Care. CHEST. 2014 Mar 1; 145(3):
500-7.[2] Representative of the total Philips eICU licensed beds as
a percentage coverage relative to total US adult ICU beds[3]
Derived from SCCM Adult ICU admission statistic and compared to
eCareManager eRI annual monitored patients
https://www.sccm.org/Communications/Critical-Care-Statistics
For further information, please contact:
Kathy O’ReillyPhilips Global Press OfficeTel.: +1
978-221-8919E-mail: kathy.oreilly@philips.com Twitter:
@kathyoreilly
Silvie CasanovaPhilips North AmericaTel: +1 978 659 7467E-mail:
Silvie.casanova@philips.com
Kristi WillettUK HealthCare PRTel.: 859-806-0445Email:
kristi.willett@uky.edu
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health
technology company focused on improving people's health and
enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy
living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care.
Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and
consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in
the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging,
image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as
well as in consumer health and home care. Philips generated 2019
sales of EUR 19.5 billion and employs approximately 80,000
employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News
about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter.
About UK HealthCareUK HealthCare is the hospitals and
clinics of the University of Kentucky. But it is so much more.
It is 9,000 people – physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other
healthcare professionals – all dedicated to providing the most
advanced, most effective care available, not just in Kentucky but
anywhere. UK HealthCare is the power of advanced medicine.
https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/
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