The IT brainwave, IBM is delving into new spheres, this time being a monitoring software being developed in collaboration with the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, for the purpose of scrutinizing and predicting the health status of premature babies during their most critical time. Certain life-threatening conditions such as infection could be detected upto 24 hours in advance by observing changes in the psychological data streams. The current system employed by physicians for monitoring preemies rely on a paper based process that involves manually looking at the readings from various monitors and getting feedback from the nurses looking after the babies.

Once the software is fully developed, it will be capable of processing the 512 readings per second generated by some of the medical devices and UOIT researchers will further test and develop it’s ability to analyze vast quantities of data promptly. The NICU medical devices in UOIT’s high-tech health informatics Laboratory will be used to test IBM’s software, which will further be tested using actual de-identified patient data.

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