An artificial intelligence-supported real-time monitoring system is coming to intensive care units.

The Ministry, which has accelerated digitalization efforts in healthcare by establishing the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Innovative Technologies under the General Directorate of Health Information Systems, has initiated a study aimed at making the operations of critical services in hospitals, such as intensive care and emergency, more efficient.

In this context, the first step will be to establish an artificial intelligence-supported "Intensive Care Center Management System." The new system aims to ensure that healthcare delivery is more effective, traceable, fast, and uninterrupted, and to provide traceability in intensive care units.

With the system that will cover public, private, and all university hospitals across Turkey, health data obtained from digital devices used in intensive care units will be analyzed through artificial intelligence.

Through these analyses, decision support will be provided to physicians in determining patients' intensive care needs. Additionally, real-time monitoring of patients' health processes and the status of occupied and vacant beds will be conducted.

"FULL INTEGRATION WILL BE ACHIEVED IN e-NABIZ"

Currently, all health data, including intensive care units of hospitals, is sent to e-Nabız in real-time via the Hospital Information Management System (HBYS). However, there is a need for a system that allows real-time data transfer directly from intensive care devices to e-Nabız and more effective integration with existing applications.

In the system planned to be implemented for this purpose, data created through Intensive Care Information Management Systems obtained directly from devices will be integrated with the Hospital Information Management System (HBYS) in hospitals and sent to the e-Nabız system in real-time.

Thus, the data of all patients admitted to adult, pediatric, and neonatal intensive care units will be monitored by authorized units through e-Nabız.

THE TEAM TO BE FORMED BY THE MINISTRY WILL MONITOR

The data in the Intensive Care Center Management System will be monitored in real-time by both healthcare professionals and health managers.

With the system, it is aimed to ensure financial traceability by controlling intensive care health expenditures across Turkey and to contribute to the formation of health policies in this direction.

With the support of artificial intelligence, the system will control the level of intensive care based on patient monitoring results, and a team to be formed within the Ministry will continuously monitor intensive care data. This will ensure that health managers are informed in real-time and that necessary interventions are implemented quickly.

CITY HOSPITALS WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO THE SYSTEM BY FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Ministry, which is preparing documentation related to the Intensive Care Center Management System and making announcements to relevant organizations while continuing to prepare regulations, is also reported to be working with the Social Security Institution regarding changes to reimbursement rules in this context.

The operational processes that will apply to all hospitals' intensive care units are aimed to be completed in the first quarter of 2025.

It is planned that the integrations between devices and systems within hospitals will be ready by February 1, 2025, for intensive care units in third-level hospitals covering city hospitals, and by April 1, 2025, for second-level hospitals, including district hospitals.