The Future of Critical Care: Optimizing Technologies and a Learning Healthcare System to Potentiate a More Humanistic Approach to Critical Care.

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Heather Meissen, Emory Healthcare; Michelle N Gong, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; An-Kwok Ian Wong, Duke University; Jerry J Zimmerman, University of Washington; Nalini Nadkarni, University of Utah; Sandra L Kane-Gil, University of Pittsburgh; Javier Amador-Castaneda, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Heatherlee Bailey, Durham VA Medical Center; Sameul M Brown, University of Utah; Ashley D DePriest, Wellstar Health System; Ifeoma Mary Eche, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Mayur Narayan, Weill Cornell Medicine; Jose Javier Provencio, University of Virginia; Nneka Sederstrom, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis; Jonathan Sevransky, Emory University; Jordan Tremper, CommonSpirit Health, Tacoma, WA.; Rebecca A Aslakson, Stanford University
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-03
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000659
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Crit Care Explor
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Start Page: e0659
• End Page: e0659
• Keywords: future; innovations; patient-centered care; technology; critical care
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Pharmacy; Health Sciences, Epidemiology

Abstract

While technological innovations are the invariable crux of speculation about the future of critical care, they cannot replace the clinician at the bedside. This article summarizes the work of the Society of Critical Care Medicine-appointed multiprofessional task for the Future of Critical Care. The Task Force notes that critical care practice will be transformed by novel technologies, integration of artificial intelligence decision support algorithms, and advances in seamless data operationalization across diverse healthcare systems and geographic regions and within federated datasets. Yet, new technologies will be relevant and meaningful only if they improve the very human endeavor of caring for someone who is critically ill.