Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Microsoft have announced that they will work as a team to develop a health IT solution that can improve the way medical devices share information in an intensive care unit.
The solution will take data from different monitoring equipment and look at trends that could then prevent injuries and complications during care.
“Today’s intensive care patient room contains anywhere from 50 to 100 pieces of medical equipment developed by different manufacturers that rarely talk to one another,” Peter Pronovost, senior vice president of patient safety and quality for Johns Hopkins Medicine and director of the Armstrong Institute, said in a release. “We are excited to collaborate with Microsoft to bring interoperability to these medical devices, to fully realize the benefits of technology and provide better care to our patients and their families. By combining teamwork with technology designed to meet patients’ and clinicians’ needs, we can make care safer, less expensive and more joyful.”
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The idea comes from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality‘s research on checklists to reduce infections and its innovative pilot program called Project Emerge. The goal is to promote better patient outcomes by restructuring a hospital’s workflow in order to eliminate some preventable issues.
“Johns Hopkins and Microsoft share a common vision of providing better care to more people,” said Michael Robinson, vice president of U.S. health and life sciences at Microsoft. “Through our joint work, Johns Hopkins and Microsoft will empower health professionals with easy-to-consume, data-driven insights, allowing them to focus more on patients and less on technology and process.”
Johns Hopkins and Microsoft reportedly plan to scale the project quickly. Pilot projects are estimated to begin in 2016.
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