Across the country, hospital intensive care units admit more than 5 million critically ill patients. When these units are staffed by intensivists, lengths of stay and costs (estimated at $13 million annually) are reduced.

Although there are significant benefits to intensivist-led intervention and care, coverage continues to be an ongoing challenge, a challenge addressed by Avel eCare ICU. Utilizing innovative remote monitoring technology, Avel’s credentialed and privileged intensivists provide ongoing remote monitoring, immediate intervention, and on-demand consultation to help ICU teams respond faster when a critical change occurs.

Facilities with Avel eCare ICU services improve the use of evidence-based medicine, reduce staff burnout thanks to 24/7 monitoring, reduce rates of complications and mortality, and reduce transfers which deliver an economic boost to both the facility and the local community.

During the last 12 months, Avel eCare ICU has had the following impact:

• 203 lives saved
• $11.2 million in costs saved
• 7,000 less days on the ICU through faster response times to complications

Avera eCARE® is a national leader in virtual health care with a proven 25-year record in visionary thinking. We’re using innovation to find new ways to connect our specialty care providers to health systems — both large and small.

AristaMD’s eConsult Platform empowers primary care providers with clinical work-up checklists and the ability to conduct eConsults with specialists to collaborate on care plans in a matter of hours.

AristaMD offers its clients unique tools for facilitating electronic consultations, often called eConsults and in-network specialist referrals that offer great value and rapid ROI, typically within 30 days of the rollout. eConsults enable higher-level care at a lower cost than the traditional delivery model. 

Health systems access AristaMD's platform to improve workforce efficiency while reducing costs. This interoperable platform can be used alone or integrated with any EHR without disrupting a hospital's clinical workflow. AristaMD offers a team of Registered Nurse Navigators (RNNs) to support the implementation and ongoing routing of eConsults. Using a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform, RNNs identify referral and follow-up requests that are appropriate for eConsult, route these requests to the appropriate specialist and return the recommendations to the patient's primary care provider for treatment.  

eConsult services are typically used by health systems to lower readmission rates and manage emergency department and discharge follow-up.

Avel eCare ICU equips facilities with the support and expertise needed to achieve better outcomes for patients, improved ICU throughput and better support for staff. Avel eCare ICU can help:

• Improve the use of evidence-based medicine
• Increase confidence among patients and families with the high level of care available
• Offer 24/7 support for staff which reduces burnout, increases retention and improves recruitment
• Reduce ICU and hospital length of stay (LOS)
• Reduce rates of complications and mortality
• Reduce transfers, delivering an economic boost to your facility and community

• Training and launch are typically achieved in less than 30 days
• ROI achieve within 30 days of launch
• Minimal IT support for the launch and usage of the platform
• Reduces referral routing and follow-up burden for hospital 
• eConsult management is available using AristaMD's Registered Nurse Navigators via a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform.
• System agnostic/interoperable
• EHR Integration is available but not required
• Use your specialists or the AristaMD panel to respond to eConsults

• High-quality eConsults that replace 70% of the need for face-to-face specialist visits 
• Quality monitoring based on KPIs defined by clients - new diagnosis, influenced care plan, replaced visits, cost savings, etc.
• Asynchronous consultation using the patient's case history (compared to curbside consultation with no PHI) results in better diagnosis and treatment recommendations
• Partnered with national health insurance providers (BCBS, Cigna, UHC, etc.).
• Licensed specialists are available to support Medicaid and Medicare use cases. 
• 10+ years in operation