Tampa General Hospital Implements ThinkAndor® Virtual Hospital

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Sep 12, 2023, 13:25 ET

Care team members can leverage virtual care experiences using one video end point.

TAMPA and ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is advancing its culture of innovation in delivering world-class care with the implementation of Andor Health's ThinkAndor^® Virtual Hospital in the inpatient setting.

Powered by AI, ThinkAndor^® streams multiple endpoints into a single dashboard or a connection via TGH's electronic medical record (EMR). TGH care teams can invite clinicians and providers for provider-to-provider consultations or host multidisciplinary calls. The platform also has the ability to invite family members, caregivers, and friends to join the virtual conversation. Andor's roadmap includes alerts for fall risk, elopement, and patient movement.

The platform can also be used to observe a patient's clinical progress virtually or to connect specialists for on-demand remote consultations. Other future platform features include capturing patients' self-reported information to drive care team actions and recommendations.

Tampa General Hospital is currently utilizing ThinkAndor in its Medical ICU setting and actively expanding into the medical/surgical environment. "Virtually enabling the patient room creates opportunities for the entire team to deliver world-class care in an innovative hybrid manner," said Jason Swoboda, director of Innovation at Tampa General. The care redesign process will begin with virtual nursing but will quickly expand to other care team members.

Tampa General chose ThinkAndor^® Virtual Hospital to effectively observe and interact with patients while maximizing resources. Adding virtual team members to the patient care team can be beneficial for the academic health system's team members. By virtualizing these capabilities, Tampa General is enhancing the patient experience and the work environment for clinicians, providers and ancillary teams.

"ThinkAndor^® Virtual Hospital empowers our care teams with the ability to care for patients using the right clinical content and context remotely. This platform allows us to continuously observe at-risk patients from anywhere, at any time, driving a collaborative practice while improving overall patient outcomes," said Dr. Nishit Patel, professor in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, vice president of medical informatics for USF Tampa General Physicians, and vice president and chief medical informatics officer at Tampa General Hospital.

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ABOUT TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
Tampa General Hospital, a 1,040-bed, not-for-profit, academic health system, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News and World Report's 2023-24 Best Hospitals, with six specialties ranking among the top 50 best hospital programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic health system's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious Forbes magazine rankings – in the top 100 nationally in the 2023 America's Best Employers for Women and top 25 in Florida in the 2023 America's Best Employers by State. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2021, provided a net community benefit worth more than $224.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Outpatient Center, TGH Virtual Health, and 21 TGH Imaging outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics. To see a medical care professional live anytime, anywhere on a smartphone, tablet or computer, visit Virtual Health | Tampa General Hospital (tgh.org). As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that provides real-time situational awareness to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.

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