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Center for Biomedical Informatics in Critical Care

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Critical care provides intensive treatment for patients with life-threatening illness and injury. It is delivered in highly specialized intensive care units (ICUs) and trauma centers that rely on a wide array of instrumentation to monitor and treat the physiological state of the patient. Our ability to generate an ever increasing amount of clinical data from physiological sensors, bedside equipment, and laboratory tests has now exceeded our ability to record, process, and integrate this high volume of information for routine patient care.

 

The Center for Biomedical Informatics in Critical Care brings together a powerful multidisciplinary team from academic medicine, computer science, and industry to develop a high performance information system and novel computational techniques for critical care medicine.

 

To create the infrastructure and methodology needed to achieve this goal, our project is consists of three specific aims. Aim 1 will establish a scalable warehouse for critical care data to facilitate multi-institutional collaboration and knowledge discovery. Aim 2 will examine the utility of data-driven methods to identify physiological data patterns for patient classification and outcome. Aim 3 will evaluate model-based approaches for physiological data filtering and clinical decision support. Together, these Aims will galvanize our multidisciplinary collaboration and fuel the development of a new generation of information systems to improve the diagnosis, treatment and outcome of critically ill and injured patients.