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• Telemedicine – the use of technology to provide healthcare remotely – is already showing tremendous potential to lower costs and enhance the reliability, convenience, and delivery of healthcare.
• The Leapfrog Group, an association of employers, estimates that 54,000 people a year could be saved if every intensive care unit (ICU) in the country were managed by a specialist, or “intensivist.”
• It would take 25,000 intensivists to physically staff every ICU, but only 6,000 are now available, making remote monitoring – so-called “e-ICUs” – the only answer. Yet only about 100 U.S. hospitals have e-ICUs, and only seven percent of ICU beds are remotely monitored.
• A study by Critical Care Medicine found that e-ICUs saw deaths fall 27 percent and the cost per ICU decline by $2,500, or 22 percent, in the first year the system was up.
• The full benefits of telemedicine are yet to be realized and will require creative public-private partnerships, most notably to achieve universal broadband deployment.

We are delighted to bring you the 19th regular installment of the AeA Competitiveness Series.  The AeA research team produces these reports on the most timely and relevant issues to the high-tech industry and to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy.  We combine rigorous data with careful analysis to provide industry leaders and policymakers the information they need to assess the issue.