Intercept Telemed Bringing ICU doctors to remote areas
                     INTERCEPT TELEMED BRINGS ICU DOCTORS TO 
REMOTE AREAS. IT WAS TOP HEALTHCARE SETUP
Intercept TeleMed – Winner of 2020 
Miami Herald Pitch Competition
 Intercept TeleMed, based in Weston, brings intensivists into ICUs 
through telemedicine. 
 Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United 
States, telemedicine has emerged as a major tool to fight and 
contain the virus.
 Intercept TeleMed is the 2020 Miami Herald Pitch Competition 
winner in the healthcare category.
Dr. Diego Reino’s Thoughts on the Need 
of Telemedicine
 “Only about 15% of all ICU beds in America are being monitored through this 
kind of telemedicine platform and as you might imagine in the current 
environment of COVID, that has become an extreme problem” said Dr. Diego 
Reino, a practicing transplant surgeon and the CEO of Intercept TeleMed.
 “We are only one of two companies that is providing this service…. We think it 
will change medicine around the world.”
 “The goal is not to replace bedside clinicians but to augment care and to add a 
second line of support”, Reino said. 
 One can remotely camera into the rooms, based on your two-way audio visual 
communication with the patient, one can make clinical decisions, one can look 
at the ventilator and make adjustments based on ventilator readings.
Intercept and Philips 
eCareManager
 The software Intercept uses is provided by 
Philips and has been shown to reduce 
mortality rates by 30 percent and shorten 
hospital stays.
 ICU costs alone make up about 1% of the 
U.S. GDP, Reino said.
 The cost of this 
24/7 technology-enhanced care is generally 
less than $50,000 per ICU bed per year.
 This compares to much higher direct costs 
of staffing intensivists around the clock, 
assuming they could be found locally.
Intercept TeleMed – A Tele-ICU Service 
Company
 Intercept has a management team of intensivists, physicians & ICU 
nurses.
 Like other telemedicine providers, Intercept is seeing a surge in demand 
as remote doctoring has moved from nice-to-have to need-it-now.
 Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. telehealth market is 
expected to witness over 80% year-over-year growth in 2020, according 
to analysis firm Research and Markets. 
 In normal times, signing a client with hundreds of ICU beds can take a 
year, said Mednick.
 We can get rapid response out to clients initially and then upgrade them 
at a later date to the full-care model with our 
predictive analytics and artificial intelligence that assist the physicians.
Thank You
• Source : Intercept TeleMed 
• http://www.intercepttelemed.com/ 
• A Tele-ICU services company that is led by physicians who have an in-
depth understanding of the problems and opportunities for improved 
outcomes within an ICU. 
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