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ICU Inefficiency

With monitors surveying every part of patients’ bodies, hospital intensive care units appear to be a model of high tech. But systems engineers say ICU’s are actually models of inefficiency because few of those high tech devices talk to each other. Experts …
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Big Data and Healthcare (2018)

Big data is changing almost every aspect of modern-day life. Healthcare is one of the most recent adopters of big data collection and analytics. Paddy Padmanabhan, a healthcare IT expert and CEO of Damo Consulting, says over the past 10 years health records …
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Reengineering the ICU

Please note: an updated version of this story was recently published – ICU Inefficiency (2018). With monitors surveying every part of patients’ bodies, hospital intensive care units appear to be a model of high tech. But systems engineers say …
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ICU PTSD

A surprisingly high percentage of people who’ve been treated in intensive care units later suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, often including hallucinations recalling horrible ICU incidents. This has led to coining a new syndrome–PICS, or …
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