EMR guided educational gaming for parents of premature infants.

The education of parents with premature infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) can be hindered by the NICUs anxiety provoking environment. This study introduces an educational gaming strategy that utilizes patient specific EMR data to teach parents vital discharge information.

Personalized case driven parental education informatics in the NICU.

Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) are foreign and intimidating to parents of premature infants. The high levels of anxiety and stress they can produce needs to be reduced by thoughtful advice from healthcare providers (HCPs), to educate parents about their child's condition. Unfortunately time constraints often limit HCPs to only a few minutes with each baby's parents daily--only enough to convey critical information at a high level and with limited depth.