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ICU_POC: AN EMR-BASED POINT OF CARE SYSTEM DESIGN FOR THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Emeka-Nweze, Chika Cornelia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1499255523449397

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, EECS - Computer Engineering.
In this era of technological transformation in medicine, there is need to revolutionize the approach and procedures involved in the treatment of diseases to have a restructured understanding of the role of data and technology in the medical industry. Data is a key factor in diagnosis, management, and treatment of patients in any medical institution. Proper management and usage of patient’s data will go a long way in helping the society save money, time and life of the patient. Having data is one thing and providing a system or means of translating the data is another issue. This dissertation is proposing a design of a Point of Care system for the Intensive Care Unit (a.k.a ICU_POC), which is a system that integrates the capabilities of the bedside monitors, bedside eFlowsheet and the Electronic Medical Records in such a manner that the clinicians interact with one another in real time from different locations, to view, analyze, and even make necessary diagnoses on patients’ ailment based on their medical records. It demonstrates how patient data from the monitors can be imported, processed, and transformed into meaningful and useful information, stored, reproduced and transferred automatically to all necessary locations securely and efficiently without any human manipulation. ICU_POC will grant physicians the remote capability in managing patients properly by providing accurate patient data, easy analysis and fast diagnosis of patient conditions. It creates an interface for physicians to query historical data and make proper assumptions based on previous medical conditions. The problem lies in managing data transfer securely between one hospital EMR database and the other for easy accessibility of data by the physicians. This work is challenged by designing a system that could provide a fast, accurate, secure and effective (FASE) diagnosis of medical conditions of the patients in the ICU. The proposed system has the potential of reducing patients’ length of stay in the ICU by equipping the physicians with an easy way of managing patients’ data seamlessly and diagnosing conditions quickly. This, in turn, will reduce the cost of care generally in the society.
Kenneth Loparo (Advisor)
Farhad Kaffashi (Committee Member)
Vira Chankong (Committee Member)
Michael Degeorgia (Committee Member)
126 p.
Computer Engineering; Computer Science; Engineering
analysis; care; critical; data; EMR; ICU; information; integration; medicine; monitoring; numerics; phenotypic; physiological; POC; system; technology; visualization; waveform; web;

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  • Emeka-Nweze, C. C. (2017). ICU_POC: AN EMR-BASED POINT OF CARE SYSTEM DESIGN FOR THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1499255523449397

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Emeka-Nweze, Chika. ICU_POC: AN EMR-BASED POINT OF CARE SYSTEM DESIGN FOR THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT . 2017. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1499255523449397.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Emeka-Nweze, Chika. "ICU_POC: AN EMR-BASED POINT OF CARE SYSTEM DESIGN FOR THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT ." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1499255523449397

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