Hospital ICUs mine big data in push for better outcomes
Courtesy of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
by: Laura Landro
Moore Foundation grantees Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Medicine speak with Laura Landro of The Wall Street Journal about their work to help health care professionals and patients achieve better outcomes through the use of data.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in partnership with integrated-systems scientists from MIT, is working on a project called Risky States that will help clinicians gauge risk levels in any one of its seven ICUs at any given time. After two years of analyzing data on all of its ICU patients, the team identified situations that increase risk, such as high number of admissions and a high nurse-to-patient ratio. They then identified more than two dozen harms during and following the risky states and developed an application that automatically pulls such data from the EHR. The data is then displayed in a visual dashboard with a risk score so that people can tell ahead of time when they are entering a risky state.
Johns Hopkins partnered with experts from its Applied Physics Laboratory to help design a system, called Emerge, that draws data from electronic records and bedside sensors to show when a person should receive treatments and therapies to prevent harm.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Optimizing ICU Safety through Patient Engagement, System Science and Information Technology
Johns Hopkins University, Armstrong Institute
Planning Grant to support Acute Care/ICU Multi-center Feasibility Study
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Acute Care Multi-site Demonstration Project
Implementation and Evaluation of Project Emerge
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Planning and Implementation of Project EMERGE at UCSF
UCSF Interim Implementation Grant