Medical Consortium Aims to Create Network of Virtual Critical Care Wards

NextGov: A biomedical technology consortium that works with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command aims to rapidly produce virtual critical care hospital wards to help relieve intensive care units and health systems confronting intensified demands during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a request for project proposals released Friday, the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium called for tech-driven partners to support the speedy development and deployment of the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network, or NETCCN—“a cloud-based, low-resource, stand-alone health information management system for the creation and coordination of flexible and extendable ‘virtual critical care wards.’”

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