Real-time visualizations improved care delivery at UVA Health

Color-coded visualizations reduce cognitive burden and improve workflows and care quality, says UVA doctor. Massive amounts of intricate data are produced during patient treatment in the intensive care unit. Staff members who are attempting to gather and summarise essential data can become overwhelmed by this data deluge. The Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) staff at University of Virginia Health and data scientists searched for a tool that could be useful, using data visualisation to make sense of the information. Many data science programmes have been adopted in MICUs across the nation, but they have had varying degrees of success, according to Dr. Claire DeBolt, clinical informatics, pulmonary, and critical care resident at UVA Health. Speaking to a crowd on Wednesday at the HIMSS23 international conference in Chicago, DeBolt claimed this lack of success has been caused by a number of factors.