National Trauma Secretariat > Digitally Integrated Care Environments for Trauma (DICE4T)

Digitally Integrated Care Environments for Trauma (DICE4T)

Digital Integrated Care Environments (DICE) can be used in trauma and critical care to improve the efficiency and quality of care for patients. Following are some of the ways that a DICE can be used in trauma care settings :

    1. Electronic Medical Records (EMR): DICE can provide healthcare providers with real-time access to patient information, including medical history, lab results, and radiology images. This can help providers make more informed decisions and reduce the risk of errors.
    2. Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE): DICE can be used to streamline the ordering of medications and tests, reducing the risk of errors and improving the efficiency of care.
    3. Digital Clinical Imaging: as trauma care largely depend on timely availability and sharing of medical images, this would lead to reduce time to definitive care, prevent repeated exposure and reduce costs of care. With the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), image analysis will be supported by AI
    4. Clinical Decision Support (CDS): DICE can provide providers with real-time alerts and guidance based on evidence-based guidelines, which can help improve the quality of care for critically ill patients.
    5. Telemedicine: DICE can be used to connect trauma and critical care teams with remote specialists, such as intensivists or trauma surgeons, to provide patients with timely, expert care.
    6. Data analytics: DICE can be used to track patient outcomes, monitor performance metrics, and identify areas for improvement. This can help providers make data-driven decisions and improve the quality of care for critically ill patients.
    7. Pre hospital care – Ambulance location sharing sytems linked to GPS
    8. Vitula patient clinics
    9. Use of AR & VR for treatment and teaching

Overall, DICE can play a vital role in the provision of care in trauma and critical care by providing providers with real-time access to patient information, decision support tools, and the ability to connect with remote specialists, which can improve the quality and efficiency of care for critically ill patients