Abstract
Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) require equipment and facilities to assist and monitor premature (and some full-term) babies. This equipment outputs physiological and clinical data, but current research does not provide doctors with techniques for capturing this data in a format that is suitable for analysis and research. Additionally, regional hospitals provide limited NICU support, but, without access to a neonatologist, the baby must be moved to another hospital. This paper details a framework for clinical and physiological data capture, the storage structures within the e-Baby data warehouse, and information access through a secure intranet/Internet browser. The key contribution of this work is the infrastructure that provides a platform for patient information data capture, storage, display and analysis. A key benefit of this work is to provide a mechanism for neonatologists to receive information directly from a regional hospital, thereby preventing, in some cases, the immediate need to move the baby.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences held on 7-10 January, 2001 at Big Island, Hawaii |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0769514359 |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
| Event | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Duration: 1 Jan 2002 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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| Period | 1/01/02 → … |
Keywords
- patient monitoring
- electronic data processing
- hospitals
- premature infants
- Australia