Information Technology in Critical Care: Review of Monitoring and Data Acquisition Systems for Patient Care and Research
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There is a broad consensus that 21st century health care will require intensive use of information technology to acquire and analyze data and then manage and disseminate information extracted from the data. No area is more data intensive than the intensive care unit. While there have been major improvements in intensive care monitoring, the medical industry, for the most part, has not incorporated many of the advances in computer science, biomedical engineering, signal processing, and mathematics that many other industries have embraced. Acquiring, synchronizing, integrating, and analyzing patient data remain frustratingly difficult because of incompatibilities among monitoring equipment, proprietary limitations from industry, and the absence of standard data formatting. In this paper, we will review the history of computers in the intensive care unit along with commonly used monitoring and data acquisition systems, both those commercially available and those being developed for research purposes.
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The introduction of novel patient monitoring applications in the ICU remains a lagging process compared to other industry sectors.
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Today, most acute care medical devices are not designed to interoperate.
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- Authors
- De Georgia, M. A., Kaffashi, F., Jacono, F. J., & Loparo, K. A.
- Affiliations
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (US)
- Venue
- The Scientific World Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-01
- Volume
- 2015
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 727694-727694
- ISSN
- 1537-744X (ISSN-L)
- 2356-6140
- PMC
- PMC4334936
- OpenAlex
- W2018024530
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 1.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Scientific World JOURNAL (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Veterans Administration Research Service (I01BX000873)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Technology and Human Factors in Education and Health
- Keywords
- intensive care monitoring, health data integration, data standardization, biomedical signal processing
- MeSH terms
- Critical Care, Humans, Medical Informatics, Monitoring, Physiologic, Systems Integration
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