As the number of signals and data to be handled grows in intensive care unit, it is necessary
to design more powerful computing systems that integrate and summarize all this …

Although today's advanced biomedical technology provides unsurpassed power in
diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment, interpretation of vast streams of information generated …

Although today's advanced biomedical technology provides unsurpassed power in
diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment, interpretation of vast streams of information generated …

Patient-related data management (PDM) has become an increasingly important and time-
consuming task in intensive care medicine. Currently, all data are usually collected in a …

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) already have proven their use in supporting
physicians and nurses in their daily responsibilities. However the uptake of these systems …

Patient monitoring in intensive care units (ICUs) is a difficult task. This is due, in part, to the
important role that the dynamic and static contexts play in the interpretation of the …

Medical informatics involves the broad fields of management and use of biomedical
information. Although based in medical computing, medical informatics incorporates a …

Effective patient care in the intensive care unit (ICU) depends on the ability of clinicians to
process large amounts of clinical and laboratory data. Recently, medical informatics …

Excess information in complex ICU environments exceeds human decision making limits,
increasing the likelihood of clinical errors. Explicit decision-support tools have favorable …

Objectives: The current Intensive Care Information Systems (IC-ISs) collect and store
monitoring data in an automated way and can replace all paper forms by an electronic …