The Laura P. and Leland K. Whittier

Virtual PICU

Creating a common information space for pediatric critical care

The VPICU Mission

To create a common information space for pediatric critical care by:

- Developing & providing high quality pediatric ICU datasets
- Developing & applying advanced computational algorithms including AI/ML to extract meaningful and actionable information from data
- Collaborating with various clinicians at CHLA and other pediatric institutions
- Engaging with the pediatric critical care community through education, publications, and workshops

Featured Projects

The PICU Data Collaborative (PDC) is composed of institutions that contribute anonymized pediatric critical care EHR data to a shared data platform which resides in a private cloud-computing environment. Find out more at https://pedsdata.org/home/

ML-ROVER: Multi-site collaboration to reduce laboratory test overutilization in pediatric critical care. Find out more at AHRQ/ML-ROVER