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Tele-ED
Tele-ED

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Product Description:
The emergency department (ED) has long been the entry point for acute care hospitals, where many patients arrive unpredictably, often in critical condition. Today, EDs face unprecedented surges of patients, many with substance abuse and behavioral health challenges. This influx leads to patients waiting on gurneys in hallways for hours or even days before an ICU room becomes available. Such inefficiencies demand multiple consultations and delay access to necessary intensivist care. Equum Medical's Tele-ED Services offer a solution to alleviate these burdens. Our physician teams take on the responsibility of managing the care of patients boarding in the ED. We ensure these patients are efficiently triaged and receive continuous management until they are either treated in the ICU, transitioned to a lower-intensity setting, or relocated to another care facility. In some cases, patients can even be sent home with appropriate prescriptions. This streamlined approach eliminates the need for multiple departmental consultations, enhancing workflow efficiency and reducing the stress on ED staff. By integrating Equum Medical's Tele-ED services, hospitals can improve patient outcomes, reduce ED overcrowding, and provide timely care. Our services help manage the critical patient population effectively, ensuring that the ED staff can focus on immediate, life-saving interventions without the added pressure of prolonged patient boarding. This innovative solution supports a more efficient healthcare delivery model, addressing the critical needs of both patients and healthcare providers.
About Equum Medical:

Equum Medical is a leader in the telehealth industry, dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery with innovative, technology-enabled solutions. Founded by experienced physicians and healthcare professionals, Equum Medical is a trusted partner for hospitals and healthcare systems aiming to enhance patient care, improve operational efficiency, and address workforce challenges. Our mission is to provide high-quality, accessible healthcare services, particularly in rural and underserved communities, through a comprehensive suite of telehealth solutions.

Equum Medical offers a wide range of telehealth services designed to meet the diverse needs of healthcare providers and patients. Our services include, Virtual Nursing, Tele-ICU, Virtual Sitter, Telemetry, Multi-Specialty Telehealth and High-Acuity Care.

Our Unique Proposition centers on our physician-founded and operated approach, ensuring services are designed with a deep understanding of clinical workflows and patient care needs. With over 200 years of combined telehealth experience among our leadership team, we offer unparalleled expertise to our clients.

Equum Medical is committed to addressing healthcare workforce shortages and enhancing care delivery through strategic telehealth solutions, making high-quality healthcare accessible to all.

Product Description:

Ease the burden on care teams with an AI-powered solution that provides virtual monitoring around the clock, in every room. The care.ai Platform continuously monitors for potential risks and notifies care teams before problems arise.


About care.ai:

Our very personal and passionate mission is to power more human care by advancing AI monitoring and predictive technology that is enabled by the largest behavioral dataset for healthcare, Advanced Edge Sensors and our IDA Platform.

As an AI company, we are focused on using our transformative innovations to deliver Self-Aware Rooms®, Smart Facilities, and Remote Patient Monitoring to autonomously optimize quality and patient experience. Our AI-powered solutions automate repetitive tasks, predict problems before they occur and allow providers to focus on the emotional support and personalized care that only they can provide.

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Clients

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Use Cases

Description:

Equum Medical's Tele-ED services provide critical support to emergency departments (ED) through telehealth technology, enabling remote consultations and management of patients. This service aims to alleviate overcrowding, reduce wait times, and provide timely access to specialist care, thereby improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency in the ED.

Use Case 1: Managing Overcrowding and Reducing Wait Times

  • Problem Statement: Emergency departments often face overcrowding and long wait times, which can lead to patient dissatisfaction, delayed care, and increased stress on healthcare staff.
  • Solution: Equum Medical's Tele-ED services enable remote consultations with emergency medicine specialists who can quickly assess and triage patients. By utilizing telehealth technology, patients can be evaluated and managed more efficiently, freeing up ED resources and reducing wait times.

Use Case 2: Enhancing Access to Specialist Care

  • Problem Statement: Rural and smaller hospitals often lack access to specialized care, requiring patients to be transferred to larger facilities, which can delay treatment and increase costs.
  • Solution: Tele-ED services provide immediate access to a network of specialists, including cardiologists, nephrologists and infectious disease experts. This enables hospitals to offer a broader range of services without the need for on-site specialists.

Use Case 3: Supporting ED Staff and Reducing Burnout

  • Problem Statement: ED staff often experience high levels of stress and burnout due to the demanding nature of emergency care, especially during peak times and in high-acuity situations.
  • Solution: Tele-ED services support ED staff by providing access to remote specialists who can assist with patient management, share the workload, and offer expert advice. This reduces the burden on on-site staff and helps prevent burnout.

Equum Medical's Tele-ED services provide versatile solutions to the common challenges faced by emergency departments. By enhancing access to specialist care, managing patient flow, and supporting on-site staff, these services improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of emergency care delivery.

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Hospitals

Executives

Description:

Infection Prevention & Control

Prevent infections and stop the spread with non-intrusive screening and automated protocol adherence.

Healthcare-associated infections pose a risk to any care environment. The care.ai Platform effectively reduces that risk by using AI-powered sensors to screen those who enter the facility and also ensures safety protocols are followed.

Increase Confidence

Gives patients and staff the peace-of-mind knowing the most advanced technology is deployed to keep the facility safe.

Reduce Costs

Mitigates the need to use costly human resources for tasks better suited to autonomous solutions.

Improve Processes

Provides real-time insights from continuous monitoring to ensure proper protocol is always being followed.

Simplify Compliance and Reporting

Provides a unified view from the IPC Command Center Module making it easier to generate compliance reports while saving time from manually searching and compiling data.

Smart Entry - Symptom Attestation and Vaccine Compliance

Protect your facility from infectious disease with contact-free entry screening and check-in. The care.ai Smart Entry™ solution screens every person who enters for skin temperatures, symptoms and vaccine compliance.

Intelligent Sensors Track and Trace Everyone Inside The Facility

By deploying multiple intelligent sensors throughout the facility, care.ai can track and trace everyone inside the facility. If an infectious disease exposure occurs, everyone who has been exposed can be quickly identified and notified.

Smart Spaces - Ensure IPC Protocol Adherence

care.ai autonomously monitors patient rooms and common areas for safety protocols such as hand hygiene, PPE efficacy and sanitization compliance. Care team members receive real-time feedback, and non-adherent behavior is documented.

IPC Command Center - Monitor and Improve Processes In Real Time

Receive IPC status alerts and other actionable data in real-time through a single view inside care.ai’s IPC Command Center. Regulatory, compliance, and audit reports are easily generated.

Patient and Protocol Monitoring

Stay continuously aware by monitoring your care environment for conditions that require intervention or processes that need improvement.

Staff shortages present challenges when trying to deliver the best care. The care.ai Platform works as an extra set of AI-powered eyes and ears, monitoring and learning in real-time so care teams can be more proactive and less reactive.

Early Warning Capabilities

Automatically detects indicators of potential risks to bring help as promptly as possible, before an adverse event occurs.

Time For More Quality Care

Ambient Intelligent Monitoring lifts the burden of routine tasks away from care teams, allowing them more time for personal interactions with patients.

Rapidly Scale Up Care

By enabling care providers to monitor many patients at one time, remote monitoring helps rapidly scale up care.

Enhance Safety

Remote monitoring capabilities are built into each room, enabling patients and providers to maintain social distancing while still providing care.

Virtual Care

Allow care teams to do more, be more present and provide a better patient experience through the use of on-demand virtual care.

Virtual care enables patients to receive healthcare in ways that provide more convenience and value. The care.ai Platform connects patients with care teams in a meaningful and impactful way, allowing for a positive continuum of care.

Predict, Prevent and Protect

With the largest machine learning behavioral dataset for healthcare, care.ai protects patients and predicts problems before they escalate.

Convenience for Care Providers

Avoids time-intensive on-site visits for care providers by offering more efficient way of delivering care, while maintaining patient satisfaction.

Timely Access to Care

Creates deeper relationships between care providers and patients, allowing for more timely interventions.

Real-Time Intelligence

Alerts care teams immediately if potential problems arise, directly to their own smart devices.

Workforce Optimization

Automate burdensome, manual tasks while improving processes in real-time and optimizing performance.

Healthcare organizations shouldn’t have to choose between efficiency and quality. The care.ai Platform automates manual tasks, creating efficiencies that improve the quality of care while achieving higher compliance rates.

Improve Processes

Continuous monitoring delivers real-time insights and reporting to ensure proper protocols are always being followed.

Single-Click Reporting

Delivers a unified view across the organization, saving hours of time in collecting and organizing data for reporting purposes.

Make Better and More Timely Clinical Decisions

AI and machine learning replaces countless hours of menial tasks, allowing care providers to focus more on their patients.

Quickly Adapt to New Regulations

Provides customizable configuration to fulfill frequently evolving compliance and regulatory mandates.

The World’s Most Advanced Virtual Nursing Platform

Enable Virtual Nursing by leveraging the most advanced in-room sensors, AI, and automated documentation capture to power virtual admission, virtual rounding and virtual discharge workflows.

A Comprehensive View into the Care Environment

care.ai™ Virtual Nursing is assisted by real-time, AI-powered autonomous inferencing. The care.ai™ Platform can automatically detect potential problems such as fall risks, providing an additional level of patient safety support.

Virtual Nursing features can be tailored to the specific needs and focus of your care team and organization.

A Second Nurse in the Care Suite

care.ai™ Virtual Nursing delivers a new and enhanced layer of support to care teams. Virtual Nurses can manage a wide variety of patient care tasks, from routine monitoring and documentation to education, precepting and compliance reporting. On-site nurses are then able to focus more time and attention on the crucial hands-on care that only they can provide. The results include improved clinical outcomes, higher patient satisfaction scores, greater staff retention and reduced operating costs.

The World’s Most Advanced Virtual Nursing Platform

  • Small device footprint utilizing in-room TV
  • On-demand two-way audio/video conferencing
  • Activation via menu or voice
  • Multi-stream video for family calls, care team consultation, language translation
  • Automatic TV activation & switching
  • Automatic call transcription

Insights

The care.ai Virtual Nursing solution includes powerful reporting and analytics tools that provide granular-level data on session parameters, protocol adherence and care team efficacy.

Use the IDA Command Center Performance module to view Virtual Nursing session data over any time range, from a per-Sensor level to across your entire organization. Know the number of sessions held, session duration, which rooms, which nurses, tasks completed and more.

Reporting data can be integrated with EMR and other applicable systems, and used for regulatory compliance, reimbursement support, and admin planning.

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Clinicans 

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, Other, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Athenahealth, Azalea Health/Prognosis, CPSI, Evident, Healthland, MEDHOST, MedWorx, QuadraMed, Self-developed, Would prefer not to disclose, Point Click Care

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Mobile / Tablet (native app), Other

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, ERP system, Pop health platform, Home health, Behavioral health, ADT

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks

Hardware Compatibility:

Mobile / Tablet (native app), Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Desktop, Other

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Use all EMR

Differentiators vs Competitors:
  1. Physician-Led and Operated. Equum Medical is founded and operated by physicians, which ensures that their telehealth solutions are designed with a deep understanding of clinical workflows and patient care needs. This physician-led approach enhances the relevance and efficacy of their services.
  2. Focus on Rural and Underserved Communities. Equum Medical has a strong commitment to improving healthcare access in rural and underserved areas. Their telehealth services are tailored to address the unique challenges faced by these communities, ensuring that patients receive high-quality care without the need for extensive travel.
  3. Proven Outcomes and Customer Testimonials. Equum Medical's services have demonstrated significant improvements in patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Their partnerships with hospitals have led to enhanced patient care, reduced wait times, and improved satisfaction among both patients and healthcare providers. Testimonials from rural hospital executives highlight the impact of Equum Medical's services.
  4. Universal Technology Approach. Equum Medical employs a tech-agnostic model that supports health system technology adoption without the need for significant infrastructure investments. This flexible approach allows them to integrate seamlessly with existing hospital systems, making it easier for healthcare providers to adopt and scale their telehealth services.
  5. High-Acuity Care Expertise. Equum Medical specializes in managing high-acuity patients, providing expert care through telehealth for complex conditions. Their high-acuity care services ensure that even the most challenging cases receive the attention and expertise they require, which is particularly valuable for hospitals with limited access to specialized care providers.
  6. Strong Partnerships and Recognitions. Equum Medical is recognized as a Gold Member of the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and has been designated as the exclusive HIT Coalition partner by the NRHA as well as a member of American Telemedicine Association. These partnerships underscore their commitment to advancing healthcare and their credibility in the telehealth market.
  7. Innovative Care Models. Equum Medical’s unique care delivery models, like ProviderPOD™, are designed to be scalable and adaptable, allowing healthcare providers to expand their services efficiently. These models optimize patient flow, reduce clinician burnout, and improve overall care delivery.
  8. Dedicated Support for Workforce Challenges. Equum Medical addresses the ongoing challenge of healthcare workforce shortages by providing integrated virtual resources that enhance recruitment and retention. Their telehealth solutions offer a more modern, flexible work environment, helping to reduce burnout and stabilize the workforce.

By leveraging these differentiators, Equum Medical stands out as a leader in the telehealth industry, offering comprehensive, innovative, and flexible solutions that meet the diverse needs of healthcare providers and patients, particularly in rural and underserved areas. Equum Medical offers a broad portfolio of telehealth services that cover the entire acute care continuum, including:

  • Tele-ICU: Provides critical care support with board-certified intensivists and critical care nurses, ensuring real-time patient monitoring and expert consultations.
  • Virtual Nursing: Offers round-the-clock nursing support, assisting with patient assessments, medication administration, and care coordination.
  • Virtual Sitter: Enhances patient safety by providing continuous remote monitoring to prevent falls and other safety concerns.
  • Telemetry: Enables remote cardiac monitoring for early detection and management of cardiac events.
  • Multi-Specialty Telehealth: Provides access to specialists in various fields, such as cardiology, nephrology, neurology, and more.
Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

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Differentiators vs Competitors:

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