About the Project
The goal of the Bedside Informatics Project is to effect a paradigm shift in the way medical information used in patient care is produced, distributed, and used.
The new requirements for medical information are that:
- it must be written in a way that makes it useable at the bedside
- it must be in a form that can be distributed efficiently
- it must be tied to the care of the patient at the point-of-care
By coupling the information required for optimal decisions to each step in the care of the patient we can expect an increase in the quality of care.
The concept is simple:
- We are developing a standardized interchange format used to encode medical information used at the bedside.
- The standard may be used by vendors of bedside information displays (patient monitors, electronic patient records, or dedicated information displays) to import information from multiple diverse sources directly to the bedside and display it in a single user interface in an easy-to-access format.
- Information providers (publishers, manufacturers, policy makers, educators, etc.) would use the standard when producing information knowing it could be directly exported to the bedside rather than sit in a binder on a shelf, a textbook in the library, a CD-ROM on a desk, or in an online source on a computer that isn’t near the bed.
A more comprehensive discussion of the topic is found in the document: Information at the Bedside: Problems and a Proposed Solution.
The project is supported by an SBIR grant from the National Institute for Nursing Research in the U.S. The project is administered by Moberg Research, Inc.
