Patient safety in intensive care units could be greatly improved if it were possible to significantly reduce false alarms and predict critical complications such as epileptic seizures. This is where the “ICU Cockpit” project, within the framework of the Swiss National Research Program “Big Data” (NRP 75), comes in: It uses the vast volumes of data generated in intensive care units to develop procedures for early warning systems and therapeutic recommendations.

Engineers at MIT have developed a sweat-proof electronic "skin." The design could lead to adaptable, wearable monitors for monitoring skin cancer and other diseases.