Spark clinical surveillance: Saving lives and improving patient care

Title : Spark clinical surveillance: Saving lives and improving patient care

Abstract:

Charles Boicey explains how healthcare uses Spark Streaming to provide real-time updates to healthcare providers for critical healthcare needs, helping clinicians make timely decisions from the assessment of a patient’s risk based on information gathered from streaming physiological monitoring along with streaming diagnostic data and the patient historical record.

Audience Take Away

• The Participant will have a working knowledge of Big Data analytic technologies and how they apply to healthcare.

• The participant will be able to state three technology trends that will impact the clinical informatics workforce.

• The participant will identify the skill sets that will be required to succeed as informaticists working with new technologies.

• The participant will formulate a personal readiness plan to meet upcoming clinical informatics challenges

Biography:

Charles Boicey MS, RN-BC is the chief innovation officer for Clearsense, an outcomes-driven healthcare technology company based in Jacksonville, FL. Previously, Charles was the enterprise analytics architect for Stony Brook Medicine, where he developed the analytics infrastructure to serve the clinical, operational, quality, and research needs of the organization. He was a founding member of the team that developed the Health and Human Services award-winning application NowTrending to assist in the early detection of disease outbreaks by utilizing social media feeds. Charles is a former president of the American Nursing Informatics Association and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Stony Brook University.