A patient in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) generates one gigabyte of data a day and almost all of this data disappears and is never used. What the Big Data for Small People program aims to do is to capture this data and use it to improve critical care. Building a system that supports precision critical care for the sickest babies and children in our hospitals.

Lead by Associate Professor Justin Skowno, Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Anaesthesia at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, the program envisions a future where a clinician will have better access to a patient’s physiological data and link that information with other medical sources to enhance an automated digital infrastructure to improve care for critical patients across our hospitals.

The program has identified where and how data is wasted and a way to transform our current systems to do things better by using artificial intelligence. The system that is being built does not have to end with just patients in critical care. It will be built for future use throughout the hospital environment and wherever children receive medical care.

Using big data and artificial intelligence, Big Data for Small People will transform clinical care and produce better outcomes for sick kids. Please see Justin Skowno speak more about this program.