Architecture for Intensive Care Data Processing and Visualization in Real-time

Abstract Clinical data is growing every day. Ergo, to treat, store and publish such data is an emergent task. Furthermore, analysing data in real-time using streaming and processing technologies and methods, in order to obtain quality data, prepared to support decision making is of extreme value. Big Data emerged with the introduction of real-time processing, thus revolutionizing traditional technologies and techniques through the ability to deal with the volume, speed and variety of data. Countless studies have been proposed in the healthcare domain in search of solutions that allow the flow of data in real-time. However, the work presented hereby is distinguished by allowing the collection, processing, storage and analysis of Intensive Care Units (ICU) data, both collected in real-time from bedside monitors but also stored in a historical repository. The architecture proposed makes use of current technologies, like Nextgen Connector as message supplier and integrator, Elasticsearch as a search index, Kibana for viewing stored data and Grafana for real-time streaming. This article is part of the ICDS4IM project - Intelligent Clinical Decision Support in Intensive Care Medicine to support the experimentation of data processing techniques and technologies, based in HL7 format and collected in real-time so that it can be made available through Health Information Systems across the healthcare institutions.