Sickbay harnesses hospital data for patient insights – News

The hospital bedside is undergoing a technological shift, led by companies such as Sickbay.

The healthcare platform offers software for collecting and delivering physiologic data at scale. This includes EKGs, arterial blood pressures and other numerics streaming across the cardiac monitor device. Researchers and hospital employees can then take those datasets and use them to gain insight about patient populations.

“We work within the hospital infrastructure,” said Raajen Patel (pictured), executive vice president of innovation, Sickbay, at Medical Informatics Corp. “If they’re entirely on-prem, if they’re hybrid, if they’re in cloud, we can work with whatever they’ve got. With the AI boom and the data boom, infrastructure that’s supported by HPE, this becomes easier for hospitals to install and implement and maintain.”

Patel spoke with theCUBE’s Paul Gillin at the SHI Fall Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Sickbay is furthering healthcare research and its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (* Disclosure below.)

Sickbay drives research forward

Medical Informatics’ Sickbay is vendor-neutral and works with different middleware companies to aggregate data that, for the most part, used to be lost entirely. The data can then be used for two primary purposes: keeping the healthcare professionals in the hospital up to date on patients and for ongoing research, according to Patel.

“If you’re at the central and you see something going on live, the first thing is to take care of that patient,” he said. “The second thing is, is this alarm real? Is this reflective of an actual trend that’s going on? That level of review … when you’re trying to keep everything from all of your patients in mind, this is where being able to get that visualization quickly … promotes that level of team care and communication.”

Medical Informatics’ partnership with HPE provides artificial intelligence models with troves of medical data, enabling more accurate results and inspiring innovation across the healthcare sector. When it comes to medical research, Medical Informatics’ Sickbay technology has supported around $10 million in grant funding, Patel estimated.

“This sub-second granularity of understanding of the patient’s physiology leads to greater and greater insight,” he said. “The wide-scale, sort of at-scale collection and access and frictionless delivery of this data enables [researchers] to get the subset of data that they want, run the analytics that they’re interested in and find interesting things about their patient population.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the SHI Fall Summit:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the SHI Fall Summit. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or News.)

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