NextGenWeb recently traveled to Falls Church, VA to take a facility tour of e-ICU Envision, part of Inova Health System. Inova Health System is a not-for-profit health care system based in Northern Virginia that consists of hospitals and other health services.  The e-ICU is a remote monitoring center that helps support medical personnel for 5 hospitals across northern Virginia. Critical care nurses are on call 24-7 to provide this support via high speed broadband networks.

Inova Health System uses state-of-the-art technology to connect specialist physicians in remote locations to hundreds of patients in hospitals across Northern Virginia. Video, audio, and other data including vitals and medical history are transported across high speed broadband connections to allow real time communication.

Through telemedicine, broadband has the potential to deliver huge cost savings to America’s health care system – over $300 billion annually. Click below to see a video of our facility tour and to see how Inova is utilizing broadband to deliver better healthcare to more people at a faster rate.

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