Intensive Care Unit

The acute care environment comprises the intensive care unit(s) (surgical, medical, cardio and neonatal) and more broadly the entire hospital. These environments frequently have rich, continuous instrumentation, providing large data streams on patient condition. However, they are characterized by insufficient staffing, unpredictable demand surges, and a crisis climate. False alerts are a significant problem and waste of medical resources, as is apparent to anyone who has spent time in an ICU and witnessed how many bedside device alerts must be ignored by nursing staff. This is not how the medical profession wants to deliver patient care.

Cost effective, high quality patient care requires rapid identification and response to adverse patient developments, such as sepsis, pneumonia, heart failure and the like. Such complications can dramatically increase length of stay and adversely affect an organization's care quality statistics. Current monitoring and alerting technologies do not provide adequate support for medical staff.


We are hard at work to show that patient data streams comprising typical vitals signs can be constantly monitored in real-time using our residual-based analysis techniques, to provide the earliest possible detection of deterioration of the patient's condition, usually well before conventional symptomatic diagnosis would be possible. The extended lead time should permit the medical professional the options of intervening early, or tracking the situation with heightened priority to verify the need for intervention.

VG-BIO's advanced predictive analytics software can be implemented in bedside hardware, in centralized patient monitoring systems, in remote electronic ICU systems, or as a web-based auxiliary alert system: Anywhere with access to patient data streams.

We are developing technology to provide intelligent leverage for medical professionals, allowing them to deliver quality healthcare in a proactive, optimized way.