Caregility Connects the Patient with Virtual Nursing - Check Out the Caregility Demo

Why It Matters

By digitizing routine monitoring and enabling remote clinician interaction, Caregility helps hospitals mitigate staffing shortages while enhancing safety and satisfaction, a critical advantage as healthcare demand rises.

Key Takeaways

• Virtual nursing addresses nursing shortages and improves patient access
• Caregility’s Duo device integrates cameras, audio, and sensors for remote care
• Automated rounding frees nurses to focus on high‑skill tasks
• Dashboard centralizes virtual nurse workflow and prioritizes patient alerts
• AI‑driven virtual sitters reduce falls and boost patient satisfaction

Summary

Caregility showcased its end‑to‑end virtual nursing platform at the HIMS 26 conference, demonstrating how its Duo edge‑device and connected‑room ecosystem aim to extend clinical care beyond the bedside.

The company positions the solution as a response to global nursing and physician shortages, leveraging remote‑monitoring sensors, automated rounding and AI‑driven alerts to shift routine tasks away from bedside staff. The Duo hardware combines a wide‑angle and PTZ camera, night‑vision, and custom audio, while in‑room sensors detect incontinence, heart‑rate and breathing without contact.

Mike Brendafino highlighted that “nurses can work at the top of their license,” noting the dashboard that prioritizes alerts and lets virtual nurses conduct two‑way video calls, involve families, interpreters, or remote physicians. The platform also supports virtual sitters capable of watching up to 64 patients simultaneously, using computer‑vision and audio cues to flag falls or distress.

If widely adopted, Caregility’s suite could reduce staffing costs, improve patient safety metrics, and lift satisfaction scores, offering health systems a scalable model for connected care in both urban and rural settings.

Original Description

Around the world, according to Mike Brandofino, President and Chief Operating Officer of Caregility, declines in clinical staff are leading to declines in the quality of care and the patient experience. At the recent HIMSS conference, we stopped by their example hospital room where he demonstrates the elements of connected healthcare that Caregility have created to facilitate virtual nursing.

The Hospital Room of the Future shown in the Caregility demo consists of two types of technologies: sensors to report important events to a virtual staff, and communications tools to let that staff collaborate with the patient.

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