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ICU vs eICU An electronic intensive care unit eICU utilizes modern technology to monitor and communicate with patients staff and families to deliver better health outcomes over a traditional intensive care unit ICU According to Cheryl Hiddleson monitoring within an eICU is accomplished via video voice bedside sensors monitors microphones and speakers Braunstein 2017a The data generated by these sensors is monitored remotely by both humans and algorithms and the local providers can be alerted to respond to the data Braunstein 2017a Leong Sirio and Rotondi have shown that eICUs are capable of delivering better care as measured through lower mortality rates as well as lowering hospital stay durations from an average of 4 35 days to 3 63 days 2005 Historical Relationship between HL7 and FHIR 200 Health Level Seven International HL7 developed the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources FHIR as a next generation standards framework that combines the best features of HL7 s v2 HL7 v3 and CDA product lines while leveraging the latest web standards and applying a tight focus on implementability Health Level Seven International 2017 The broad goal for the development of these standards is to enable electronic healthcare data exchange Health Level Seven International n d FHIR is considered an evolution over HL7 v3 and the two can coexist alongside one another Health Level Seven International 2017 As Buchman mentions in the interview the HL7 v3 standard is cumbersome and may require 60 pages of data to report a single lab value Braunstein 2017a FHIR addresses this challenge in a few ways utilizing concise specifications being built on web standards and human readability alongside a formal mapping
