CASE STUDY Vidyo Solution Serves as Basis for Advanced ICU Care’s Virtual Health Journey Advanced ICU Care is a group of intensivists — doctors specially trained in critical care who work in an intensive care unit (ICU) — who offered in-person bedside care. In 2005, the group was asked to provide care to a remote hospital in Missouri. They had to decline because they didn’t have doctors who could consistently make the trip. But that request triggered Advanced ICU Care to find a way to address remote care without commuting. Challenge “One of the myths of telemedicine is that it simply takes bedside care and makes it available remotely. The reality is that, done right, telemedicine actually improves care because there are things you can do when watching from afar – when you’re u

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