A federated data collection application for the prediction of adverse hypotensive events

The Avert-IT project (EU FP7) is an initiative to develop a system that can predict the onset of hypotensive events in patients over a feasible timescale (e.g. 15 mins) and allow clinicians to administer the appropriate treatment. To produce this system requires the additional development of a data collection platform, based at six leading clinical centres throughout Europe, with real-time integration to established patient monitoring systems and conversion of this data to accepted standards developed previously by the Brain-IT consortium (www.brain-it.org). This paper describes the motivation of Avert-IT, the clinical background, the development and implementation of the data collection platform, and the design considerations behind the predictor system (¿Hypo-Predict¿ engine).