Chez NICU Home is a multi-faceted project led by Dr. Marsha Campbell-Yeo at the IWK Health Centre. Chez NICU Home offers a secure, web-based platform that provides families in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with the education and resources they need to become more active participants in the care of their baby.
Chez NICU Home is currently being tested with real families in the NICU at the IWK Health Centre to make sure that this platform meets their needs. When complete, Chez NICU Home will be a sophisticated, secure, virtual platform in which the NICU patients and families are electronically linked to IWK health care providers, to the home of their families, and to their local health professional no matter where they are, through a network of devices, technologies and solutions.
The Chez NICU Home platform combines tailored and interactive parent education, and individualized feedback and analytics to optimize outcomes and experiences of families whose infants require a stay in the NICU.
This project is supported through funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Cisco Canada, and the IWK Health Centre.
For more information, contact ChezNICUHome@iwk.nshealth.ca