ICU Cockpit – Learning from Real-time Data Streams in the Intensive Care Unit

In today’s intensive care units (ICUs), biosensors collect up to 100 GB of data per patient every day. These vast amounts of data are only valuable if they lead to better patient outcomes. The following questions arise:

• How can medical staff gain insights from this data?

• How can risk constellations be identified as early as possible?

• How can therapeutic recommendations be adopted?

In the context of multiple research projects, our team is developing the «ICU Cockpit» user interface, a dashboard for the Neurosurgical intensive care unit of the University Hospital Zurich. The dashboard visualizes patient data and makes algorithmic predictions accessible to ICU health professionals. It supports medical decisions and thereby improves patient safety.

Rahel Lüthy

Expert in Software Development and Information Visualization