Big Data in Neonatal Intensive Care

Author

McGregor, Carolyn

Author_Institution

Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Technol., Oshawa, ON, Canada

Volume

46

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Jun-13

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

59

Abstract

The effective use of big data within neonatal intensive care units has great potential to support a new wave of clinical discovery, leading to earlier detection and prevention of a wide range of deadly medical conditions. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/OIQBCboQs0g is a video in which author Carolyn McGregor expands on her article "Big Data in Neonatal Intensive Care" and discusses how the effective use of big data within neonatal intensive care units has great potential to support a new wave of clinical discovery, leading to earlier detection and prevention of a wide range of deadly medical conditions.

Keywords

data handling; medical administrative data processing; patient care; big data; clinical discovery; medical detection; medical prevention; neonatal intensive care unit; Biomedical monitoring; Data handling; Data privacy; Information management; Medical diagnostic imaging; Monitoring; Real-time systems; big data; clinical decision support systems; neonatal intensive care; online health analytics; physiological data;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2013.157

Filename

6513228