VISICU Showcased as Healthcare Transformation Leader eICU® Solution Featured in New Healthcare Transformation Book by Newt Gingrich May 28th, 2003 VISICU, Inc. creator of the eICU® solution, is featured in a new book written by Newt Gingrich called Saving Lives & Saving Money: Transforming Health and Healthcare with co-authors Dana Pavey and Anne Woodbury. Saving Lives & Saving Money identifies the principles of transformation necessary to create a 21st Century System of Health and Healthcare that will both save lives and save money. Gingrich believes that our healthcare system is beyond reform-that it needs to be transformed into something totally different than it is today. "'Re-forming' " Gingrich says, 'is the process of trying to make the current pattern work'. Transforming is about developing new and very different patterns." The book presents success stories of actual healthcare companies, organizations, and projects to offer both proof that a better system of health and healthcare is possible and an opportunity for others to adopt the transforming ideas. The eICU® solution from VISICU is featured as a trailblazing way to significantly improve intensive care unit outcomes and costs, as this excerpt demonstrates: Today, if you were admitted to an intensive care unit you could be supervised by an intensive care doctor and nurse 24 hours a day, 7-days a week. You would be saved from avoidable mistakes, treated for problems at their earliest symptoms and know that if a crisis were to occur at 2:00 in the morning a fully awake intensive care team is ready to respond. As a result you would leave the intensive care unit sooner and save money. This technology currently exists and is available from VISICU. Frank T. Sample, VISICU president and CEO, applauds the efforts of Speaker Gingrich and his team. "True transformation involves thinking out of the box and being willing to try things a different way." Sample added, "This type of thinking is what fuels the creative ideas from VISICU and the forward-looking healthcare organizations that have been willing to break free from their old beliefs and back the powerful ideas behind the eICU® solution." Saving Lives & Saving Money, an Alexis de Tocqueville publication printed and distributed by BookSurge, is available for purchase at www.healthtransformation.net.