Royal Philips, a health innovation company, has joined forces with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a collaborative effort to provide healthcare researchers access to one of the largest data sources for critical care research.
The de-identified data of 100,000 patients comes from Philips' Hospital to Home eICU telehealth program, representing approximately 10 percent of all adult ICU beds in the country. The data include vital signs, pharmacy medication orders, laboratory results, diagnoses and severity of illness.
MIT's Laboratory of Computational Physiology, house in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, will be the academic research hub for the new initiative.
"Researchers are always looking for better, more accurate and comprehensive data that enables a holistic representation of the patient experience," said Leo Anthony Celi, MD, clinical research director at the Laboratory of Computational Physiology. "This kind of access will provide researchers with data that will enable investigations otherwise unimaginable."
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