"iCuro"™ (Intensive Care Unit Real-time Observer) : A Real-Time ICU Patient Data Integration and Presentation System

Specific Purpose & Problem Statement: In most intensive care units (ICUs), clinical data acquisition and integration relies upon time-consuming human intervention to create huge paper flowsheets, a practice that creates "information overload", errors, fragmented medical decision making and long-term archiving problems. We have developed, tested and FDA certified a new type of computer system that is officially a 510K device. The iCuroTM System is a bedside, networked, movable machine that automatically acquires and integrates time-stamped monitor, ventilator and infusion pump data, with patient data from labs, specialty devices, and bedside observations. iCuroTM has a secure, HIPAA-standards compliant architecture, and is locally configurable using push-button set-up and an integrated HL7 mapping utility. The iCuroTM device provides real-time access to trended clinical information streams at the bedside, or offsite, at the iCuro Control CenterTM. The iCuroTM user interface gives each treating clinician flexibility to generate "their" integrated information set on demand, in the desired format. The device also automates nurse and respiratory therapist charting, and concatenates userentered and machine-acquired data onto "zoom-able" trend graphic panels and paper reports. iCuroTM fully supports neonatal, pediatric and adult critical care processes.