The goal of a new IT program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is to develop tools to support interventions for avoiding preventable harm in the intensive care unit.
Supported by a $5.3 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a team of BIDMC clinicians will partner with scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to develop a dashboard system that both displays relevant patient information to clinicians and provides easy-to-understand summaries to patients and families to facilitate communication.
By both engaging patients and families as well as drawing clinicians' focus to the patient's most pressing needs, BIDMC officials hope the program will reduce preventable harm in the ICU.
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