Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Scanning the horizon: emerging hospital-wide technologies and their impact on critical care. | Critical Care February 2005 Vol 9 No 1 Suntharalingam et al. Commentary Scanning the horizon emerging hospital-wide technologies and their impact on critical care Ganesh Suntharalingam1 Jonathan Cousins2 David Gattas3 and Martin Chapman4 1 Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia Northwick Park St Marks Hospitals Harrow UK 2Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Royal Marsden Hospital London UK 3Staff Specialist Intensive Care Services Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney Australia 4Assistant Professor University of Toronto Sunnybrook Women s College Health Sciences Centre Toronto Canada Corresponding author Ganesh Suntharalingam Published online 13 January 2005 This article is online at http content 9 1 12 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2005 9 12-15 DOI cc3046 Abstract This commentary represents a selective survey of developments relevant to critical care. Selected themes include advances in point-of-care diagnostic testing glucose control novel microbiological diagnostics and infection control measures and developments in information technology that have implications for intensive care. The latter encompasses an early example of an artificially intelligent clinical decision support mechanism the introduction of a national health care information technology programme UK NPfIT and its implications and exotic threats to patient safety due to emergent behaviour in complex information systems. Keywords glucose health technology assessment information technology intensive care point-of-care Introduction This series of articles provides regular surveillance of new technologies which may impact on critical care. Several countries have developed national horizon scanning systems to identify and monitor new health technologies. There is variation in how these centres gather information but a consistent set of high priority sources has been identified 1 . For the purposes of this .
