Andrew F. Hart

As I've mentioned in other posts, we've been working closely for some time with a technically-minded group of clinicians from Children's Hospital, Los Angeles to develop a computational framework for the application of advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to clinical decision support for clinicians in pediatric intensive care units. Funded by an ARRA grant from the National Library of Medicine, we're 18 months into the two year project, and just completed a paper describing the architecture and rationale behind what we've established at CHLA.

Just this week, we were informed that our paper,

"An Informatics Architecture for the Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit"

was accepted to the 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS-2011). The CHLA lead, Dr. Randall Wetzel, will be presenting our work in Bristol, England, on Tuesday, June 28th. This is an exciting opportunity to get some additional visibility for what I consider to be an incredibly interesting, and worthwhile project.