Engineering the Integrated Clinical Environment Organizing Information in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

The overarching goal of this project is to develop engineering requirements for future information resources in the ICU. We describe a method and related instrumentation for collecting data about information requirements from a clinical team in situ. Video records are collected using three consumer-grade video cameras, augmented by a wireless microphone system. We combine the video/audio recordings into a single, synchronized record. A transcript is prepared, and then coded by a professional medical records coder, using the SNOMED CT coding scheme. The resulting record represents a coded stream of verbal utterances that is sufficiently precise to support systems engineering analysis.