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Digital Transformation: The Smart ICU

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Digital transformation in healthcare is affecting all levels of care. Conceptually speaking, it involves technology but also cultural changes and acceptance. Adapting technology is beneficial in healthcare. Patient safety and the delivery of care have certainly improved with the advent of technological advances. Also, our ability to manage extended databases and have readily available resources for its use at all levels has also impacted healthcare. However, technology has also created obstacles and limitations such us alarm fatigue and lack of interoperability among systems, making it difficult to navigate information pathways. Smart ICU design contemplates the ability of the systems to communicate, facilitate, and re-create all elements of the delivery of medical care in the ICU. Concepts as action-reaction, real-time data collection, and integration of information as well as predictive algorithms are subject to growing research and discussion. A change on the culture of medical care from our actual system of delivery to the patient-centered one also benefits from technological innovation. The future of medical care, including ICU care, is personalized, centered in the singularity of the human being.

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  1. Department of Critical Care Services, Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Javier Pérez-Fernández

  2. Intensive Care Medicine, Juan A. Fernandez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Nestor A. Raimondi

  3. Department of Critical Care, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Seville University, Seville, Spain

    Francisco Murillo Cabezas

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  3. Department of Critical Care and Neurocritical Care, HIMA-San Pablo, Caguas, Puerto Rico

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Pérez-Fernández, J., Raimondi, N.A., Murillo Cabezas, F. (2020). Digital Transformation: The Smart ICU. In: Hidalgo, J., Pérez-Fernández, J., Rodríguez-Vega, G. (eds) Critical Care Administration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33808-4_9

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