National Emergency Telecritical Care Network (NETCCN) Project - white paper
Enhanced White Papers are due no later than April 27 at 12:00pm Eastern Time.

Due to the critical and urgent nature of the technical topic area, MTEC membership is NOT required for the submission of an Enhanced White Paper in response to this MTEC RPP.
The University of Iowa is a member of MTEC

The full RPP is posted to the MTEC website https://www.mtec-sc.org/solicitations/

This program is specifically focused on preparation for COVID-19 related critical care capability shortages.  Although the United States has more critical care beds per capita than other developed nations, emerging national and international experience with COVID-19-related critical illness suggests a high level of oncoming system stress on critical care resources and a likely potential for intensive care unit (ICU) beds and care teams to be overwhelmed.

This RPP focuses on enhanced development of integrated technologies and clinical workflows to establish and rapidly scale virtual wards. The program will support the extension of high-quality intensive care to traditional (e.g. critical access hospitals and clinics) and non-traditional and temporary healthcare facilities (e.g. field hospitals and gymnasiums) which lack adequate critical care expertise and resources necessary for care of COVID-19-related illnesses.  Enhanced white papers should specifically address providing EXISTING technologies available for other use cases that can be rapidly adapted to establishing a National Emergency Tele Critical Care Network (NETCCN).  Existing technologies which should be included are as follows:

1. Mobile communications capabilities including synchronous audio/video, asynchronous messaging, and access to continuous monitoring
2. Clinician-facing web portal and/or mobile-based application (goal is availability on every device)
3. Capability for basic documentation in real-time as well as data collection and reporting
4. Cloud-based information storage including ability for later offloading via PDF or HL7