Equum Medical's Virtual Sitter Services enhance patient safety and care through continuous, remote monitoring. Designed to support hospitals facing staffing challenges and to improve patient outcomes, our virtual sitter services leverage advanced telehealth technology to provide constant observation of patients at risk of falls, self-harm, or other safety concerns.

Virtual sitters utilize high-resolution video and audio technology to monitor patients from a centralized location. This approach allows trained technicians to observe multiple patients simultaneously, providing real-time alerts to on-site nursing staff when immediate intervention is necessary. By reducing the need for in-person sitters, hospitals can optimize their resources and ensure that their staff is utilized efficiently.

The primary benefits of Equum Medical's Virtual Sitter Services include enhanced patient safety, reduced staffing costs, and improved workflow efficiency. Virtual sitters can promptly identify and respond to potential safety issues, ensuring that patients receive timely and appropriate care. This proactive approach helps to prevent falls, reduce incidents of self-harm, and mitigate other safety risks, leading to better patient outcomes and higher satisfaction rates.

Additionally, virtual sitters play a crucial role in supporting bedside nurses by handling routine monitoring tasks, allowing on-site staff to focus on more critical aspects of patient care. This collaboration fosters a safer, more efficient care environment and helps to alleviate the workload of overburdened nursing teams.

Equum Medical's Virtual Sitter Services offer a scalable, cost-effective solution to address the growing demands of modern healthcare. By integrating virtual sitters into their care models, hospitals can enhance patient safety, optimize staffing, and improve the overall quality of care provided to patients.

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.

Babyscripts myJourney is a clinically-validated, obstetrics-specific solution that allows OB/GYNs and other maternal health care providers to deliver a new model of prenatal and postpartum care via a mobile app-based platform and remote patient monitoring experiences. It exists to solve the problems generated from the critical shortage of obstetrical providers in the U.S. and to transform the delivery of pregnancy care through the power of technology and remote patient monitoring.

1. Patient users download the Babyscripts myJourney digital companion app onto their smartphone, enabling 24/7 access to personalized educational content tailored to each stage of pregnancy up through one year postpartum.Through myJourney’s assessment and survey functionality, users self-report health history, mental risk, and social determinants of health data. All data is communicated back to the healthcare team through a provider-facing dashboard, enabling the appropriate intervention and facilitating better clinical decision-making. 
2. All users also have access to manual blood pressure tracking in the app, even those who are normotensive or considered low-risk, to support the integration of self monitored blood pressure monitoring into routine prenatal and postpartum care. Patients can input BP data manually or automatically into the myJourney app via a manual or internet-connected cuff. Data is available to the healthcare team through a provider-facing dashboard, and high risk situations are actively communicated to the patient’s healthcare team, enabling recognition of hypertension risk when it occurs and informing any necessary changes to the care plan, including the option to enroll patients onto Babyscripts myJourney Blood Pressure RPM. 

Babyscripts myJourney Blood Pressure RPM is specifically designed for high-risk patients and is supported by a care management layer. Patients track their blood pressure readings at home with the support of a dedicated care manager. Readings are recorded via the myJourney app and an internet or cellular-enabled blood pressure cuff, synced with their healthcare provider's system. This integration allows for continuous monitoring and immediate feedback. If a patient's blood pressure reading is outside of the parameters set by their healthcare team, the app alerts the patient, care manager, and the healthcare team, facilitating timely medical intervention. 

1. Key Components: Babyscripts myJourney Blood Pressure RPM incorporates several key components designed to enhance maternal health outcomes through remote monitoring and patient engagement, including the following: 

• Connected blood pressure cuff: The program provides patients with a digital blood pressure monitor that is internet or cellular-enabled, allowing patients to measure their blood pressure at home and automatically transmit the readings to their healthcare providers in real-time. 
• Mobile app integration: The Babyscripts myJourney app integrates seamlessly with the blood pressure cuff, allowing users to easily log and track their readings. The app is accessible on both smartphones and tablets. 
• Real-time alerts and feedback: The app is programmed to send immediate alerts to patients, care manager, and healthcare providers if any readings fall outside of the parameters set by the healthcare team. By means of a sophisticated exception reporting workflow and the addition of care management support, Babyscripts reduces trigger fatigue, surfacing only actionable data.
• Care management: Patients enrolled onto Babyscripts BP RPM are matched with a care manager, who operates incident to and under the supervision of the healthcare provider to provide education, motivation, and remove any barriers to compliance with daily blood pressure capture.
• Tailored educational content: In addition to general pregnancy and postpartum content, patients enrolled in Babyscripts Blood Pressure RPM receive resources specific to their risk profile. 
• Provider dashboard: Healthcare providers have access to a dedicated dashboard where they can monitor their patients' blood pressure readings, track trends over time, and adjust care plans accordingly. This centralized data collection facilitates better patient management and follow-up care. 
• Patient engagement and compliance tools: The app includes tools to help patients stay engaged and compliant with their monitoring routines. This includes reminders for taking blood pressure readings, educational materials, and motivational content to encourage adherence. The patient’s care manager communicates regularly to ensure compliance. 
• Data security and privacy: The platform complies with all relevant healthcare regulations and standards, including HIPAA, to protect patient information.
• EMR integration: Babyscripts BP RPM integrates into the medical record through several methods, enabling patient onboarding directly in the EMR and automatically filling blood pressure readings into the patient's chart.

Together these components provide a comprehensive solution for managing hypertension in pregnant and postpartum women, significantly improving maternal health outcomes by enabling continuous monitoring and timely medical interventions. The Babyscripts blood pressure RPM model is reimbursable, offering a sustainable service for providers to improve the patient experience and outcomes related to hypertension during pregnancy.

1. Babyscripts partnered with GW-MFA and others in a number of research projects, with results published in ACOG’s Green Journal and JMIR, validating the effectiveness of reduced in-person visits for prenatal care, better management of weight and blood pressure complications, improving compliance and adherence to HEDIS measures, and reducing rates of readmission in the postpartum period through remote monitoring. 
2. Babyscripts' patient-centric solution extends care outside the four walls of the office, making personalized healthcare education, risk-stratified remote monitoring, and real-time virtual triage as readily accessible as the smartphone, responding to mothers’ needs for accessibility and convenience. Babyscripts has deeply engaged this patient population, with 92% of users saying that they would recommend the solution to their friends.
3. Babyscripts' vision for improving care has always been driven and amplified by clinicians: strategic partners like George Washington Medical Faculty Associates, Cone Health System, and Advocate Aurora Healthcare, among others. These partnerships are essential to Babyscripts' project of creating solutions for patients with and for clinicians.
4. Babyscripts gives the healthcare team and payer the ability to monitor both behavioral compliance and physical vital signs between visits, to identify adverse trends in real-time and lower the cost of care. The ability to integrate Babyscripts into the EMR and clinical workflow is one of its most important value-adds, allowing providers to offer comprehensive virtual care and payers and deliver “next generation” care coordination.

Babyscripts is delivering a new model for prenatal and postpartum care that is transforming the way expectant mothers use technology to work with their healthcare providers. Since 2014, Babyscripts has offered the most-implemented mobile clinical solution for remote monitoring in pregnancy, with the mission to eliminate maternal mortality and improve access to care for all mothers. For more information on our virtual care solution and to request a demo, visit babyscripts.com.

1. Babyscripts has exclusively licensed best-in-class protocols that allow the company to make categorical claims in the market around efficacy and outcomes.
2. The Babyscripts solution has been clinically-validated through peer reviewed research and case studies proving efficacy in schedule optimization, patient engagement, and other outcomes.
3. Babyscripts has a wealth of its own IP in managing patients remotely (like maintaining compliance) and in detecting and triaging abnormal data points to reduce false positives and elevate real problems.
4. While some health systems might invest in specific component parts of what Babyscripts typically offers (an app or integrating data points from IOT devices back to the record), the real challenge is in scaling programs and offering the right protocol at the point of care to generate ROI. Babyscripts is the expert in remote obstetrical care and since 2014 has accumulated a wealth of collateral, assets and best practices that enable these programs to scale.
5. Babyscripts is a scaled program that is significantly less expensive to implement and use than a health system trying to build and maintain their own program. Babyscripts represents a lower cost for health systems to develop, deploy and maintain, with the added benefit of continuous technical and customer support managed by Babyscripts.

1. Babyscripts offers the only clinically-validated, obstetrics-specific mobile platform that delivers educational information that aligns with a provider's care plan. While other maternity programs deliver evidence-based content, only Babyscripts allows the provider to customize their content, delivering the exact information that they want the patient to see and eliminating confusion. 
2. Babyscripts deploys internet-enabled medical devices that directly triage information like high blood pressure back to the physician automatically in their desired workflow, a solution that no consumer app provides. Because of the connection with the provider, Babyscripts detects abnormal trends and then triages those data points directly to the provider’s office. With Babyscripts’ risk-specific modules, a provider is able to deliver different clinical experiences to patients dependent on risk. Babyscripts provides the only clinically-validated solution to focus on obstetrics. 
3. Babyscripts is the first obstetrics-specific digital solution to connect payers and providers, improving care coordination for maternal health populations, monitoring adherence to quality measures, and improving patient engagement and outcomes. This solution helps mothers overcome barriers to care by assessing for risk, providing mothers with direct access to resources directly correlated with their identified risks.