AvaSure has developed and integrated AI enhancements to our pioneering TeleSitter® solution that identify patients at risk, reduce cognitive burden on virtual staff and help prevent adverse events
We are creating a future where cutting edge technology and compassionate care converge. AI is essential in that future, but it must be deployed thoughtfully with the clinician and patient in mind. We set high standards for safety and alert fatigue in developing our AI enhancements, choosing to partner with leading vendors where best-in-class capabilities already exist and developing others with internal expertise.
Download the latest guide to learn more about our TeleSitter solution AI enhancements.
Artificial intelligence (AI) as a term has become generalized to the point of being meaningless, even within the technology industry. But there are multiple types of AI, each producing their own particular outcomes. Below are some of the specific forms of AI, how and what they learn, and the best use cases for each in virtual care.
Collaboration of industry leaders to deliver improved patient monitoring and care optimization services amid time of widespread healthcare staffing shortages
BELMONT, Mich., and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.– Sept. 7, 2023 – AvaSure, the market leader in acute virtual sitting and virtual nursing solutions and Ouva, a technology leader in AI-powered patient observation, have announced the integration of Ouva’s comprehensive AI capabilities with the AvaSure TeleSitter® solution, delivering unparalleled patient monitoring and care optimization. The partnership represents another example of how AvaSure, the most widely deployed virtual care system, continues to bring innovative solutions to customers.
The collaboration introduces a fusion of technologies in which Ouva’s AI platform-in-the-cloud observes bedside activity via AvaSure’s virtual care and safety devices, offering real-time insights and alerts without requiring additional hardware installations at the bedside. This innovation enables rapid deployment of AI capabilities, presenting healthcare providers with a more streamlined and efficient observation process to reduce patient falls and elopements.
The combined solution offers critical benefits to U.S. hospitals facing staff shortages:
Guides observers: With Ouva’s integration, the AvaSure TeleSitter® solution generates additional insights. Ouva’s AI-driven alerts are delivered directly within the AvaSure platform, guiding observer attention precisely where it’s most needed.
An ecosystem on AvaSure’s widely deployed platform: This is yet another AI-powered offering from AvaSure, providing customers an open ecosystem of integrations among them fall risk decisions support and fall and elopement detection.
Extended coverage: For hospitals facing a shortage of sitters, resulting in patients being placed on observation waitlists, the power of Ouva’s AI extends the monitoring capabilities, ensuring no patient in need goes unmonitored.
“AvaSure is excited to partner with Ouva to enable AI-powered patient observation,” said Adam McMullin, CEO, AvaSure. “Our partnership signifies another bold step towards leveraging AI, redefining how we ensure the well-being of those under our care. Through this collaboration, we are not only embracing cutting-edge technology but also reaffirming our commitment to enhancing patient outcomes and experiences with AvaSure’s open ecosystem. Together, AvaSure and Ouva are pioneering a new era of healthcare, where precision meets compassion, and where the virtual realm becomes an extension of our unwavering dedication to the health and safety of every individual.”
“We are incredibly excited about this partnership with AvaSure, which represents a significant leap forward in virtual patient care,” said Dogan Demir, CEO of Ouva. “Integrating Ouva’s AI solutions with AvaSure’s TeleSitter® is more than just technological synergy—it’s a testament to our shared vision of redefining patient monitoring. With this collaboration, we’re bringing forward a solution that’s seamless, intelligent, and, most importantly, eases the stress put on the healthcare system due to staffing shortages.”
About AvaSure
AvaSure provides the leading hospital virtual care platform to systems with nursing and staffing shortages that are challenged to significantly reduce labor costs without sacrificing patient health outcomes. Recognized by KLAS Research as the leader in reducing the cost of patient care, AvaSure is the pioneer in providing best-in-class, video-based AvaSure TeleSitter® and TeleNurse™ solutions. As a trusted partner of more than 1,000 hospitals, AvaSure combines remote patient monitors, virtual nurses and other providers on a single platform to enhance clinical care without placing any additional burdens on existing staff. To learn more about AvaSure visit www.AvaSure.com.
About Ouva
Ouva offers an AI-powered platform tailored for the virtual care era, delivering 24/7 access to live patient data, safety predictions, and insights for workforce efficiency. Ouva’s AI platform aids in eliminating redundant observations, prioritizing patients in need, and improving overall workforce efficiency. Developed over multiple years of peer-reviewed clinical collaborations, Ouva offers the most comprehensive and enterprise-ready platform in the cloud for seamless deployment of AI at scale. To learn more about Ouva, visit www.ouva.co.
Join us for a transformative session as we conclude the captivating journey through our virtual nursing 101 classroom series. In this final installment, Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN, Chief Clinical Officer, will distill the invaluable insights and profound wisdom garnered over the past six months of sessions from pioneering virtual nursing programs.
In this webinar, Lisbeth will uncover:
The essential considerations surrounding traditional care paradigms
How to embark on an exploration of the dynamic co-caring model
How this paradigm shift can effectively address the pressing challenges of care quality, patient experience, and cost containment
Don’t miss this unparalleled opportunity to learn from the forefront of nursing innovation. Join us for an engaging session that promises to empower you with the knowledge and strategies to not only initiate change but to shape the future of nursing care. Secure your spot today and be a part of this transformative experience as we uncover the pathway to redefining healthcare through virtual nursing excellence.
Once you’ve sold your teams on virtual nursing, picking the right partner is essential.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Criteria to use to select the right partner for program success & what requirements should guide your decision
How technology will impact your program and details around emerging trends towards AI/Machine Learning, camera-in-every-room, and more
This free, six-part series will take place the last Thursday of each month featuring Lisbeth along with special guests and experts. Lisbeth will cover key topics, lessons learned from ongoing programs, and audience questions.
This model of virtual nursing focuses on retaining an experienced nurse to oversee a cohort of complex patients, monitoring for early signs of adverse patient events, mentoring novice nurses and providing support to bedside care teams.
Hear from Lisbeth Votruba, RN, MSN, CCO of AvaSure and the team from UCHealth, Amy Hassell, RN, MSN, Director of Patient Services and Dr. Hemali Patel, ACMO of Inpatient Services. Amy and Dr. Patel work in the innovative Virtual Care Center at UCHealth which helps to support monitoring for patient deterioration, post rapid-response monitoring and more using the Expert Oversight model of Virtual Nursing. Hear about how their program started, outcomes they’ve experienced over the past year and roadblocks they’ve faced in scaling their virtual nursing efforts.
In this session, you’ll learn:
What’s driving the need for this nursing model, areas of focus and hear best practices from those who’ve already piloted.
Early outcomes from those already using this model to help detect adverse events sooner and drive satisfaction in nursing staff, especially novice team members.
Tips on staffing and scaling your virtual nursing program
Presenters: Amy Hassell RN, MSN, Senior Director of Patient Services, UCHealth Virtual Health Center Dr. Hemali Patel, MD, ACMO, Inpatient Services, UCHealth
This free, six-part series will take place the last Thursday of each month featuring Lisbeth along with special guests and experts. Lisbeth will cover key topics, lessons learned from ongoing programs, and audience questions.
BELMONT, Mich., May 31, 2023 — AvaSure, the inventor of the TeleSitter® solution and the market leader in acute virtual care and remote safety monitoring, announced today that it is launching artificial intelligence (AI) enhancements to its industry-leading virtual care platform. AI augmentation will enable health system partners to enhance efficiency and time-savings while also improving the quality of care they deliver.
AvaSure unveils computer-vision augmented alerts for patient falls and elopement
Initial applications will build on the already strong ROI delivered via the AvaSure TeleSitter solution by amplifying a virtual safety attendant’s capacity for reducing elopement and preventing falls. Safety attendants will remain the “human in the loop” with support from AI, which will alert virtual safety attendants when an at-risk patient tries to stand up or attempts to leave their room. Virtual team members can then intervene before an adverse event occurs.
“AvaSure is the most trusted video-based partner in healthcare because of our well-earned reputation for providing only human-validated alarms with response times measured in seconds,” said Adam McMullin, CEO, AvaSure. ”Accuracy is our goal, and AvaSure will use AI technology in a meaningful way to support that goal.”
AvaSure is working toward AI augmented implementations with several health system clients and is now seeking a set number of additional collaborators for a limited release.
Kinometrix partnership adds predictive fall risk identification
In addition, AvaSure is excited to partner with Kinometrix to better identify patients at risk of falling who would benefit from participation in AvaSure’s TeleSitter program. Kinometrix expertly employs predictive analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence with Electronic Health Records – effectively mining data related to potential inpatient falls. These AI-driven enhancements will improve the accuracy of identifying patients at risk of falling and alleviate the nursing workload associated with fall risk assessments. Opportunities to pilot this solution are now available to all health system clients.
AvaSure’s virtual care platform enables virtual team care by combining remote patient sitters, virtual nurses, and other providers in a single enterprise technology solution to enhance clinical care without placing any additional burdens on existing staff.
About AvaSure
AvaSure provides the leading hospital virtual care platform to systems with nursing and staffing shortages that are challenged to significantly reduce labor costs without sacrificing patient health outcomes. Recently recognized by KLAS Research as the leader in reducing the cost of patient care, AvaSure is the pioneer in providing best-in-class, video-based AvaSure TeleSitter® and TeleNurse™ solutions. As a trusted partner of more than 1,000 hospitals, AvaSure combines remote patient monitors, virtual nurses and other providers on a single platform to enhance clinical care without placing any additional burdens on existing staff. To learn more about AvaSure visit www.avasure.com.
Are you looking at your virtual care strategy? The easiest place to start is refreshing the systems you already have. Learn from AvaSure experts how to incorporate the latest technologies into your virtual care program. You won’t want to miss this session discussing how you can protect patient safety, manage costs effectively, and why leveraging available resources, like AvaSure’s nurse experts, is more critical than ever.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
Key considerations and tips when planning your virtual care strategy
How AvaSure’s devices and software can support your program goals
Trade in options to help you save while taking advantage of the latest technology
How refreshing your program drives nurse satisfaction and patient safety
There’s no telling what type of illness surges hospitals will see this year: Take lessons from Jefferson Health’s nurse-led virtual nursing pilot program here.
A surge in respiratory viruses over the fall and winter months placed immense capacity and resource strain on hospitals. This year, they can’t afford to wait and see what the next respiratory virus reason might bring.
In this session, leaders from Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health will share how a nurse-led approach helped the organization meet staffing demands during this past pediatric surge in respiratory syncytial virus cases. Colleen Mallozzi, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing informatics officer at Jefferson Health, and Laura Gartner, DNP, RN, clinical informatics director at the health system, will share how the team quickly expanded an existing virtual sitting program into a virtual nursing pilot to meet patient care and staffing demands.
Learning points:
The timely implementation of a systemwide virtual nursing pilot
The CNIO’s pivotal role in ensuring the clinical practice leads the technology and not the other way around
Critical steps to structure the program including the right setting, staffing, and outcome measurements
Presenters:
Colleen Mallozzi, MBA RN, SVP, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Jefferson Health
Laura Gartner DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC, Division Director Clinical Informatics, Jefferson Health
Join AvaSure Chief Clinical Officer, Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN, for Session 2! In this on-demand webinar, you’ll learn:
How the Clinical Resource TeleNurse focuses on offloading documentation and administrative burden from bedside teams, helping to optimize your labor force and deliver elevated patient care
What’s driving the need for this nursing model, areas of focus and hear best practices from those who’ve already piloted
Early outcomes from those already using this model to help reduce discharge time, increase patient & staff satisfaction and optimize outcomes
