PICAMS: Post Intensive CAre Monitoring System

Medical staff on duty in hospitals provides high quality care for high-risk patients, especially those situated in intensive care units. Such care may present, in addition to great psychophysical pressure to the staff, considerable expenses for the hospital in question. In the paper we propose a Post Intensive CAre Monitoring System (PICAMS), based on the emerging technologies, which may eventually diminish the requirement for the doctor’s non-interrupted presence, and allow for a faster transfer of the patient from the intensive care unit to the ordinary ward. What is more, it would also give patients the ability to move freely, which can be only positive for them in terms of better mood, quicker rehabilitation and indirectly lower costs for the hospital in question. Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana (ILB, DO, MM, NZ), Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Gorica (MK). Contact person: Iztok Lebar Bajec, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. tel. +386(0)14768785. email: [email protected]. Infor Med Slov 2003; 8(1): 20-26 Informatica Medica Slovenica 2003; 8(1) 21