Johns Hopkins joins forces with Microsoft to improve critical care
Intensive-care medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity. To save one life, scores of medical professionals have to carry out thousands of steps correctly. In the ICU, there’s little room for error or improvisation.
One misstep could create serious problems like blood clots, distressed breathing, infection or worse. Health professionals remain dedicated to stemming these issues, but all too often they lack the critical data and insights that result in fully optimized proactive and reactive care.
Today, The Johns Hopkins University announced plans to work with Microsoft to build a solution aimed at improving patient safety and care quality. Created for intensive care environments, the new solution will draw data from modern devices and medical records to show when a patient requires treatments to prevent complications. It’s a life-saving checklist that operates in real time.
Based on Johns Hopkins’ Project Emerge, the new solution will scale previously developed workflow and care concepts into an integrated system for patients, families and care teams. A host of improvements, including a move to Microsoft’s Cloud, will bring real-time, data-driven intelligence to patient care. Advanced innovations, like Microsoft Azure compute, storage, analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, will connect disparate devices, capture and analyze data, and develop actionable insights for providers. Additional technologies, like mobile devices, sensors, and an easy-to-use application round out the next-generation product.
Our mutual goal is to deliver Project Emerge to health organizations across the country and transform the way care is delivered by arming health professionals with the right information, at the right time.
By combining our leading expertise, Johns Hopkins and Microsoft hope to capture the immense opportunity to transform intensive care, and dramatically reduce the estimated 400,000 lives lost each year from preventable harms.
For additional information on Project Emerge, visit the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality site. To learn more about Microsoft’s solutions for health organizations, visit www.microsoft.com/health.
