Intel and MIC Announce Scale to Serve Program to Rapidly Expand Remote ICUs to 100 US Hospitals
April 29 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
What’s New: As part of Intel’s $50 million pandemic
response, Intel and Medical Informatics Corp. (MIC) today announced
the Scale to Serve Program to help hospitals rapidly install and
scale MIC’s Sickbay™ platform. The platform is designed to help
hospitals rapidly expand intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity and
create more efficient care of the most critical patients while also
reducing risk of COVID-19 exposure for critical care providers who
are at a higher risk of exposure due to the nature of their work.
Through the Scale to Serve program, Intel has agreed to fund the
implementation fees and MIC will waive the first 90 days of
software subscription licensing fees for the first 100 hospitals
that qualify.
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Intel CPUs, server chips, FPGAs and more
have a long history of powering medical data centers and devices in
hospital rooms. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
“Intel technology has a role to help
accelerate the core capabilities our medical community requires to
combat COVID-19. This is why we’re committed to applying our
technology to helping protect our front-line healthcare providers
who are providing care for ICU patients by accelerating the access
to virtual patient monitoring solutions. The solution improves the
efficiency of ICU patient care from anywhere while protecting the
health of caregivers on the front line of this crisis.” –Lisa
Spelman, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the
Xeon and Memory Group
Why It Matters: Hospitals are facing challenges due to
the pandemic: from ramping ICU capacity and staffing the front
lines to getting providers access to the data they need to
effectively intervene. They are challenged with meeting these needs
because patient data is currently tied to medical devices at the
bedside and locked down in proprietary formats that don’t easily
integrate with each other. The Sickbay platform helps address these
issues by unlocking and unifying this disparate data from the
bedside to enable flexible, scalable remote monitoring from any
web-enabled device to create clinical distancing and help protect
providers from exposure to COVID-19. The solution allows hospitals
to turn any acute care bed into a monitored ICU bed in minutes and
create flexible remote workflows, including the ability for one
provider to remotely direct care for up to 100 patients in a single
dashboard or “virtual ICU” (vICU) and/or create flexible virtual
rounding of patients from conference rooms, offices or home on any
PC. This flexibility helps hospitals rapidly expand staff capacity,
including staff that may be in quarantine or coming out of
retirement, to get more eyes on patients and help hospitals save
more lives – both from patients and healthcare workers. Remote
views bring together data from multiple medical devices, including
ventilators and cardiac monitors from different vendors, to ensure
that all members of the care team have the data they need to take
action.
“In healthcare today, less than 1% of the data being generated
by patients makes it into the electronic health record, forcing
clinicians to work without a complete picture. We unlock that data
to allow for predictive analytics, remote patient monitoring, AI
and machine learning applications that will ultimately help
providers create a new standard of care tomorrow,” said Emma Fauss,
chief executive officer, MIC. “What COVID has done is crystallize
the immediate need around reducing interactions in the room and
looking at resource limitations in a new way. How can you monitor
more patients with less, without sacrificing the quality of care?
It requires being able to monitor patients remotely, monitor
multiple patients at once, and leverage data for patient
trajectory, analytics and risk scoring.
“Scale to Serve embodies what MIC and Intel believe: We’re here
to serve healthcare providers on the front line to do their job
effectively. We want to be there to support that mission and
ultimately transform the standard of care.”
About Sickbay’s Early Implementation: In March 2020,
Houston Methodist Hospital deployed Sickbay as part of its
telehealth initiative to create a vICU. Within one day of go-live,
Houston Methodist began to see COVID-19 patients. Due to Sickbay’s
software-based design, Houston Methodist was able to turn on new
COVID-19 ICU beds in minutes. The hospital’s staff currently has
the ability to monitor up to 180 COVID-19 patients remotely from
their on-site command center, conference rooms and offices.
Other MIC clients are also beginning to expand capacity for
COVID-19, including the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hospital.
“We plan to use Sickbay in a centralized monitoring area where a
single physician or nurse can monitor patients remotely and
leverage hierarchical categorization of patients. We also plan to
give our physicians who may be at higher risk of infection the
opportunity to provide highly important consultation, without
having to be in the line of fire, by logging in from a remote site
on a web-based, secure, HIPPA-compliant system,” said Dr. Dan
Berkowitz, M.D., chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and
Perioperative Medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hospital. “Every time a physician goes into an ICU room, there’s a
risk of exposure and a need to utilize PPE. We can reduce exposure
risk by enabling the physicians to access the physiologic patient
data remotely and save precious PPE.”
How It Works: MIC Sickbay is the only scalable
FDA-cleared clinical surveillance and analytics platform created
for ICUs. The software-based monitoring and analytics platform is
vendor-agnostic, integrating seamlessly with medical devices that
hospitals use. Sickbay utilizes Intel® Xeon® processor-based
platforms to deliver data visualization and analytics, and can be
accessed by providers using any connected PC, tablet or phone. Once
deployed, Sickbay supports evidence-based care decisions by
providing providers with near real-time waveform data across
connected devices integrated into a single view, along with patient
history for the entire length of stay, to help care teams automate
the building of trends and create patient-specific analytics at
scale.
Hospitals interested in access can apply for the program on the
MIC website.
What’s Next: Intel and MIC are talking to hospitals
across the U.S. to enable them to quickly deploy Sickbay and
protect their critical care providers.
More Context: ATA Spotlight on COVID-19: Scaling ICU Beds
and Capabilities (Webinar)
More Customer Stories: Intel Customer Spotlight on
Intel.com | Customer Stories on Intel Newsroom
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