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VITA Award Recipients 2024
VITA AWARD COMPETITION ICEM2024
International Federation for Emergency Medicine Visionary Industry Technology Award ICEM 2024 Taipei
During ICEM 2024 in Taipei, the VITA Award Ceremony was announced. The aim of this award is to deliver a high-profile honor for technology applications at one of the biggest International Conferences on Emergency Medicine – IFEM's annual conference.
2024 VITA Winner
Dr. Stephanie Chow Garbern, USA
Remote Electronic Monitoring and Decision Support for ImprovEd Sepsis Care (REMEDIES)
REMEDIES is a wearable-enabled, machine learning-driven, mobile health clinical decision support and monitoring system for pediatric sepsis care in resource-limited settings. A wearable device (patch biosensor) is attached to a patient's chest with continuous vital signs streamed to a Bluetooth-linked mobile device.
The device displays vital signs remotely and continuously to improve the ease and accuracy of patient monitoring in busy wards, provides age-adjusted alerts of vital sign abnormalities, and displays risk estimates (derived from machine learning clinical models) of advanced sepsis states and death to better help clinicians risk stratify patients and allocate scarce resources. This technology may enable prompt and high-quality emergency and critical care management of children with sepsis in resource-limited settings where other sepsis care tools are not feasible or perform poorly.
This research is particularly valuable in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to lack of critical care monitoring capacities, and difficulties using existing clinical prediction scores such as pSOFA, PELOD-2, given their dependence on multiple laboratory tests such as liver function tests or blood gases.