One Screen, Every Connection: Video Collaboration via the Aceso Sphere

Nearly every patient room is positioned for today’s virtual care program needs: a smart television and a camera. Aceso Sphere can turn that television — paired with an in-room camera — into the video endpoint for every remote encounter a hospital runs, from virtual nursing and physician consults, to tele-sitting, rounding, family visits, and more. One screen. One touch to connect. No cart to chase down the hall. And flexibility that enables a cost effective strategy.

The Problem with Virtual Care: Scalability

Most hospitals in North America weren’t designed with virtual care in mind. So most adapted — and they wheeled it in. A cart for tele-sitting, a tablet for interpreter services, a separate device for consults. Each one is another specialty-specific asset to track, charge, disinfect, and troubleshoot, and each one asks staff to learn a different interface under pressure. The result is a virtual care program that works in pilot but stalls at scale.

Aceso Sphere takes the opposite approach: virtual care rides on infrastructure that’s likely already in the room. Or can be with a little investment. The in-room screen and camera become a standing video endpoint, connected through the same platform patients already use for entertainment, education, and service requests.

One Platform, Every Use Case

Virtual nursing. 66% of nurse leaders report plans to launch telehealth nursing models, using virtual nurses to handle admission interviews, discharge teaching, and medication double-checks so bedside staff can focus on hands-on care. That model can only work with a platform approach: a hub that can share, consume and organize the delivery, and enable cost effective scalability. 

Tele-sitting. The same endpoint that hosts a virtual nurse visit supports continuous remote observation for fall and safety risk, without a dedicated cart/device parked at the bedside.

Rounding and specialist consults. Two-way video at the bedside supports routine rounding as well as formal consults, bringing neurology, psychiatry, and other specialties into any connected room — particularly valuable for rural and critical-access facilities, and for after-hours coverage anywhere. It also reduces PPE use and unnecessary staff exposure for isolation patients.

Interpreter services and family presence. On-demand video interpretation removes the need for a separate device or a delayed in-person visit. Family members who can’t be there in person join rounds, consults, and everyday conversations through the same screen the patient already knows how to use.

Build on What’s Already There

Aceso Sphere is an open platform, not a point solution dependent on proprietary hardware. The Sphere platform is the hub to the video and communication tools hospitals may already run, and to the EHR, so a virtual nurse or specialist joins the call with the same chart context as the team at the bedside.

The Bottom Line

Virtual nursing, tele-sitting, rounding, specialist consults, interpreter services, family presence — hospitals tend to build these as separate programs with separate hardware. Aceso Sphere treats them as one capability: video collaboration, available in every bed, on the screen that’s already there.

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