Anesthesiologists face significant challenges in monitoring patients in the operating room as they are inundated with data. To help guide anesthesia providers in surgery, a decision support system integrates multiple real-time data streams into a single dashboard providing a ‘live’ schematic view of organs.
The system, called AlertWatch, leverages data extracted from physiologic monitors, electronic health records and laboratory systems, and then displays a patient’s condition in a single user interface, with color-coded icons to indicate normal (green), borderline abnormal (yellow) and abnormal (red) ranges for the data related to each organ system or lab value. The central part of the dashboard includes icons of five organ systems: brain, heart, kidneys, liver and lungs.
