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Unified Real-time Critical Care Early Warning Platform (UCC-EWS)
Disease-Specific Multi-Model Real-time Surveillance and Alert Platform.
Target
This implementation establishes a multi-model integrated platform for real-time patient risk surveillance, enabling continuous assessment of critical conditions through unified computational frameworks.
Background
Clinical Pain Point Analysis
Critical care units manage high-acuity patients with unpredictable deterioration, requiring intensive monitoring that consumes 68% of nursing time (per JCAHO benchmarks). However, prevailing nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:1.5 fall below recommended standards of 1:3-1:5, creating significant safety gaps in risk response capabilities.
Model Management Challenges
Existing model deployments face three core challenges:
a) Validation Fragility Static models lacking continuous data ingestion fail persistent clinical validation (per FDA SaMD guidelines)
b) Dataset Fragmentation Disparate variable requirements force redundant data provisioning, hindering hospital-wide data asset consolidation
c) Research Silos Proliferation of single-study models (67% being pilot academic projects) creates operational complexity”*
Breakthroughs
- Innovative Model Repository Management: Establishes a unified repository for diverse model types, enabling dedicated model management capabilities including debugging, administration, configuration, and validation. Crucially, the system automatically selects and applies the highest-risk model based on individual patient profiles for optimal clinical relevance.
- Multi-dimensional Model Visualization: Effectively presents models across various dimensions. This includes, but is not limited to, temporal (time-series) and non-temporal models, visualization of model parameter evolution history, and integrated displays combining model outputs with critical patient information for comprehensive clinical insight.
- Granular Access Control & Alert Optimization: Implements role-based access controls (RBAC) for patient data visibility combined with configurable data permissions (e.g., anonymization protocols). This enables customizable, tiered alert management, effectively mitigating clinical alert fatigue caused by an overload of low-priority notifications through tailored, risk-based alerting strategies.
Implementation Strategy
- Foundation: Real-time & Historical Patient Data Hub: Provides a core platform for collecting and managing standardized, general patient datasets. This platform integrates real-time data from current inpatients with comprehensive historical patient records to form a robust data foundation.
- Centralized Model Repository Framework: Implements a comprehensive model registry mechanism. This supports model registration, version control, threshold configuration, hyperparameter tuning, and essential lifecycle management tasks within the unified repository.
- Robust Data Governance & Access Control: Establishes granular data permissions and strict data isolation protocols. Data is tagged and segmented based on criteria like department, ward, and disease type. This segmentation is tightly integrated with the RBAC system, enabling highly flexible and secure foundational configurations tailored to organizational structure and needs.
Future Outlook
- Data as Strategic Digital Assets: High-quality, curated datasets evolve into valuable organizational digital assets, paving the way for systematic digital asset management and potential value exchange mechanisms within or between trusted entities.
- Model Reusability & Cost Efficiency: High-performance models trained on these assets become readily reusable resources. This enables cross-organizational deployment and adaptation, significantly reducing development costs and accelerating implementation for similar clinical needs elsewhere.
- API-Driven Open Ecosystem & Collaboration: The internal model training and management infrastructure will be exposed via secure, integrated API services. This openness facilitates access for external partners and institutions, fostering multi-center collaboration, regional health information exchange, and a shared ecosystem for AI-driven healthcare innovation.
Product Feature List
| Level 1 | Level 2 | Function Description (EN) |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard Apps | Hospital Command Center | Displays hospital-wide alerts: Shows all patients flagged by risk models across the facility. |
| Department View | Visualizes active patient alerts within a specific department. Configurable to display only high-priority alerts. | |
| Patient Detail View | Shows detailed model results for a specific patient: Model history, request parameters, variable trends & anomalies, flagged outcomes. | |
| Dashboard Configuration | Configures model display scope, alert severity levels, and display order. | |
| Model Repository | Model Registration | Manages model metadata, categorization, and file uploads/storage. |
| Threshold Settings | Configures model risk thresholds, severity levels, and applicable disease mappings. | |
| Departmental Rules | Sets department-specific alert rules: Message priority, notification level, and display order for models. | |
| Version Control | Manages model lifecycle: Upload, download, publish, edit, categorize. Maintains full audit trail. | |
| API Management | Visualizes model parameters & provides API testing tools. Supports batch testing. Facilitates secure API access & management. | |
| Model Ops Dashboard | Request Summary | Overview of model operations: Aggregated request metrics (success/fail rates, rejection reasons). |
| Alert Details | Detailed model alerts: Content messages, diagnostic logs, hyperparameter shifts, raw vs. transformed value alerts. | |
| Disease-Specific Dataset Mgmt | Dept/Hospital Summary | Visualizes disease-specific data collection metrics by dept/hospital: Cohort enrollment, follow-up status, API call volume. |
| Cohort Criteria | Defines & manages patient inclusion/exclusion rules for studies (based on encounter data for standard models). | |
| Variable Definition | Defines variable domains, individual variables, and data transformation rules. | |
| Variable Generation | Configures variable calculation: Request frequency, update logic (incremental/full), patient-encounter level precision. | |
| Data Warehouse | Displays details of generated variables. Extensible to include follow-up data collection. | |
| Dataset Management | Manages multi-version datasets. Extract data directly from warehouse. Merge test datasets. Use interactive Venn diagrams for cohort partitioning. Supports data cleaning/editing with visualization tools. Extracts key variables for analysis. | |
| Advanced Search | Enables filtered dataset searches (within user permissions). Supports variable aggregation, transformation, and complex queries (AND/OR/NOT). | |
| Follow-Up Management | Automated patient recruitment based on criteria. Supports post-discharge mobile follow-up entry & in-clinic QR code enrollment. Allows authorized edits to follow-up data (audited). | |
| System Settings | Manages user roles, menu permissions, and role-based data access scopes. |
