Precise Patient Monitoring Solutions—Super Alarm

To combat hospital staff alarm fatigue, Dr. Xiao Hu and his team are developing more precise algorithms that analyze streaming data from patient monitors and data from the electronic health record system. The Super Alarm integrates information across different data modalities and adds the temporal dimension to quantify a monitored patient’s risk of acute deterioration toward catastrophic events, such as cardiopulmonary arrest. This solution has been programmed into an easy-to-use, web-based platform that is at the final stage of tuning with real-time patient data before launching a prospective validation study and, eventually, clinical trials.