Phillips M
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Pediatr Nurs. 1999 Mar-Apr;25(2):185-6, 189.
A program of telemedicine has been developed in the NICU at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in Boston, Massachusetts. The telemedicine project, "Baby Care Link," allows families to have increased access to their infant, care team, and educational information during hospitalization and following discharge. The goal of this multidisciplinary project is to provide an approach to managing the care of the very low birth weight (VLBW) infant. Workstations in the families' homes provide education, care schedules, remote sensor links to clinical providers, and videoconferencing. The linkage of home, clinician, and community centers will allow for the episodic needs of high-risk infants while continuously monitoring progress and managing treatments systematically in the home rather than the NICU setting. It is believed that the use of this emerging technology might lead to shorter hospital stays as well as increased parental understanding and comfort, overall parental satisfaction with care, improvement in health status, improvement in clinician satisfaction, and lastly, a reduction in hospital associated costs.
马萨诸塞州波士顿市贝斯以色列女执事医疗中心（BIDMC）的新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）已开展了一项远程医疗项目。这个名为“婴儿护理连接”的远程医疗项目，能让家庭在婴儿住院期间及出院后，有更多机会接触到自己的婴儿、护理团队以及教育信息。这个多学科项目的目标是提供一种管理极低出生体重（VLBW）婴儿护理的方法。家庭中的工作站提供教育内容、护理时间表、与临床医护人员的远程传感器连接以及视频会议功能。家庭、临床医生和社区中心之间的联系，将满足高危婴儿的阶段性需求，同时在家中而非新生儿重症监护病房环境下持续监测进展并系统管理治疗。人们认为，使用这项新兴技术可能会缩短住院时间，增强父母的理解与舒适度，提高父母对护理的总体满意度，改善健康状况，提升临床医生的满意度，最后还能降低医院相关成本。
