Critical care clinicians from US healthcare provider Emory Healthcare are being stationed at Sydney's Macquarie University Hospital and using Philips' eICU technology to remotely monitor critically ill patients back in Atlanta.

eICU is a well-established telehealth program in the US that uses a mixture of audio-visual technology and predictive analytics and data visualisation software called eCareManager to remotely monitor patients in ICU. The technology was first developed by Baltimore-based Visicu, which Royal Philips purchased in 2007 for $US430 million.