Smart Critical Care: Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Critical care medicine is one of the crucial disciplines in the modern healthcare system. It is even more apparent when we face the global challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. To improve the quality of care and alleviate the heavy workload of healthcare professionals in intensive care units, we tried to apply intelligence technology in our daily clinical practices. By adopting 4C strategies (Connection, Collection, Clearing, and Computation), we have developed a series of prediction models of common and essential critical illnesses by artificial intelligence, including acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute kidney injury (AKI), bacteremia, and discharge outcomes. We integrated these prediction models into several dashboards to facilitate clinical decisions and disease management.

We also have established a critical care capacity center dashboard for better management of essential resources of care. We aimed to provide high-quality and efficient medical care for critically ill patients by integrating human and artificial intelligence.