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Global Care Quest, Inc Global Care Quest And Advanced ICU Care Announce Strategic Alliance
Global Care Quest, Inc Global Care Quest And Advanced ICU Care Announce Strategic Alliance
Global Care Quest And Advanced ICU Care Announce Strategic Alliance
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:00 | 
| Company News - Global Care Quest, Inc |
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Healthcare solutions providers Global Care Quest (GCQ) and Advanced ICU Care (AICU), a medical services company connecting critical care physicians (intensivists) to hospital ICU patients using telemedicine technology, announced the signing of a strategic alliance. Under the agreement, the two companies will team together to raise awareness of increasingly sophisticated, real-time technology designed to improve patient care. They will also collaborate on marketing their services and technologies to provide critical care medical expertise and comprehensive patient information to community hospitals who may lack staffing and resources to do so onsite.
Advanced ICU Care’s board-certified intensivists and critical care nurses utilize a clinical management and communications technology called the eICU® system that allows for the remote care and monitoring of critically ill patients. The system, which combines software with remote care tools - such as critical patient data and video feeds - delivers intensivist services to patients in multiple hospitals from Advanced ICU Care’s Operations Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
“We are pleased to partner with Global Care Quest, a cutting-edge company providing vital patient data to clinicians when and where they need it. Our company directives are similar: we are both focused on transforming healthcare through technology, enhancing patient health and safety,” said Scott Turner, vice president of Advanced ICU Care. “This partnership provides an opportunity to extend access to our life-saving model of care.”
“Realtime access to the full range of patient information is critical to providing quality care,” said Tim Wareham, GCQ’s Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. “The problem is physicians with the right expertise aren’t always standing bedside or in front of a hospital’s information systems, which can result in delays in critical care decisions. Our partnership with AICU will allow members of the medical team access to the full scope of information on a patient - labs, nursing notes, CT scans, realtime vitals and more - from a single screen, both inside the hospital and out.”
GCQ’s ICIS Dashboard automatically collects a broad range of patient information-lab results, physician notes, CT Scans, X-rays, even realtime vital signs from bedside monitors-and presents it on a single screen. The system works both over local networks and the Internet allowing medical team members to view the information both inside the hospital, from remote operations centers and on the road.
The two companies plan to implement their joint efforts immediately.
About Advanced ICU Care
Advanced ICU Care is a medical service company that provides high-quality remote critical care to patients in the intensive care units (ICUs) of community hospitals. Through a technology platform developed by VISICU, local hospital ICUs are linked with Advanced ICU Care’s eICU Operations Center in St. Louis, Missouri. This operations center is staffed by highly trained, board-certified intensivists (critical care physicians) and critical care nurses who together have cared for more than 30,000 patients. Collectively, Advanced ICU Care’s medical staff brings more than 75 years of clinical experience as well as expertise in hospital compliance initiatives, educational programs, and the development and implementation of protocol and care pathways. For more information visit www.icumedicine.com.
About Global Care Quest
Global Care Quest is the developer of the Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS) which performs real time integration and delivery of digital medical records, charting, bedside monitoring equipment and laboratory results to physicians and medical teams via stationary and wireless PCs as well as handheld wireless devices. ICIS improves access to patient data, enhances patient safety, and trims the cost of care by delivering critical patient information when and where it’s needed. Founded in 2005, the company is venture backed by Lexington Ventures and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.
Source: Global Care Quest
Healthcare solutions providers Global Care Quest (GCQ) and Advanced ICU Care (AICU), a medical services company connecting critical care physicians (intensivists) to hospital ICU patients using telemedicine technology, announced the signing of a strategic alliance. Under the agreement, the two companies will team together to raise awareness of increasingly sophisticated, real-time technology designed to improve patient care. They will also collaborate on marketing their services and technologies to provide critical care medical expertise and comprehensive patient information to community hospitals who may lack staffing and resources to do so onsite.
Advanced ICU Care’s board-certified intensivists and critical care nurses utilize a clinical management and communications technology called the eICU® system that allows for the remote care and monitoring of critically ill patients. The system, which combines software with remote care tools - such as critical patient data and video feeds - delivers intensivist services to patients in multiple hospitals from Advanced ICU Care’s Operations Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
“We are pleased to partner with Global Care Quest, a cutting-edge company providing vital patient data to clinicians when and where they need it. Our company directives are similar: we are both focused on transforming healthcare through technology, enhancing patient health and safety,” said Scott Turner, vice president of Advanced ICU Care. “This partnership provides an opportunity to extend access to our life-saving model of care.”
“Realtime access to the full range of patient information is critical to providing quality care,” said Tim Wareham, GCQ’s Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. “The problem is physicians with the right expertise aren’t always standing bedside or in front of a hospital’s information systems, which can result in delays in critical care decisions. Our partnership with AICU will allow members of the medical team access to the full scope of information on a patient - labs, nursing notes, CT scans, realtime vitals and more - from a single screen, both inside the hospital and out.”
GCQ’s ICIS Dashboard automatically collects a broad range of patient information-lab results, physician notes, CT Scans, X-rays, even realtime vital signs from bedside monitors-and presents it on a single screen. The system works both over local networks and the Internet allowing medical team members to view the information both inside the hospital, from remote operations centers and on the road.
The two companies plan to implement their joint efforts immediately.
About Advanced ICU Care
Advanced ICU Care is a medical service company that provides high-quality remote critical care to patients in the intensive care units (ICUs) of community hospitals. Through a technology platform developed by VISICU, local hospital ICUs are linked with Advanced ICU Care’s eICU Operations Center in St. Louis, Missouri. This operations center is staffed by highly trained, board-certified intensivists (critical care physicians) and critical care nurses who together have cared for more than 30,000 patients. Collectively, Advanced ICU Care’s medical staff brings more than 75 years of clinical experience as well as expertise in hospital compliance initiatives, educational programs, and the development and implementation of protocol and care pathways. For more information visit www.icumedicine.com.
About Global Care Quest
Global Care Quest is the developer of the Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS) which performs real time integration and delivery of digital medical records, charting, bedside monitoring equipment and laboratory results to physicians and medical teams via stationary and wireless PCs as well as handheld wireless devices. ICIS improves access to patient data, enhances patient safety, and trims the cost of care by delivering critical patient information when and where it’s needed. Founded in 2005, the company is venture backed by Lexington Ventures and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.
Source: Global Care Quest
