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Intel and MIC Announce Scale to Serve Program to Rapidly Expand Remote ICUs to 100 US Hospitals
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- What’s New: As part of Intel’s $50 million pandemic response, Intel and Medical Informatics Corp. (MIC) today
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[{"type":"text","content":" SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWhat’s New: As part of Intel’s $50 million pandemic response, Intel and Medical Informatics Corp. (MIC) today announced the Scale to Serve Program to help hospitals rapidly install and scale MIC’s Sickbay™ platform. The platform is designed to help hospitals rapidly expand intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity and create more efficient care of the most critical patients while also reducing risk of COVID-19 exposure for critical care providers who are at a higher risk of exposure due to the nature of their work. Through the Scale to Serve program, Intel has agreed to fund the implementation fees and MIC will waive the first 90 days of software subscription licensing fees for the first 100 hospitals that qualify.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200429005040/en/Intel CPUs, server chips, FPGAs and more have a long history of powering medical data centers and devices in hospital rooms. (Credit: Intel Corporation)\n\n“Intel technology has a role to help accelerate the core capabilities our medical community requires to combat COVID-19. This is why we’re committed to applying our technology to helping protect our front-line healthcare providers who are providing care for ICU patients by accelerating the access to virtual patient monitoring solutions. The solution improves the efficiency of ICU patient care from anywhere while protecting the health of caregivers on the front line of this crisis.”\n–Lisa Spelman, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Xeon and Memory Group\n\n\nWhy It Matters: Hospitals are facing challenges due to the pandemic: from ramping ICU capacity and staffing the front lines to getting providers access to the data they need to effectively intervene. They are challenged with meeting these needs because patient data is currently tied to medical devices at the bedside and locked down in proprietary formats that don’t easily integrate with each other. The Sickbay platform helps address these issues by unlocking and unifying this disparate data from the bedside to enable flexible, scalable remote monitoring from any web-enabled device to create clinical distancing and help protect providers from exposure to COVID-19. The solution allows hospitals to turn any acute care bed into a m...