Etiometry vs Sickbay (2026)
Both sell vendor neutral platforms for critical care data, and both market analytics beyond what their clearances cover. Etiometry aggregates ICU data and runs four physiologic risk indices, each estimating the probability that a patient is in a defined physiologic state; its current clearance covers three indices, for children up to 12, while its FAQ claims adult clearance for all four. One index has been revalidated at an outside site. Sickbay, from Medical Informatics Corp in Houston, captures waveforms and physiologic data from monitors and ventilators across manufacturers, stores them and displays them in a browser for bedside teams and virtual command centers. Its clearance covers routing, storage and display; the predictive analytics it markets as AI informed are configured logic outside that clearance. Choose Etiometry for physiologic risk estimates; choose Sickbay for capturing and viewing waveforms across the hospital.
- You want estimates of a patient's current physiologic state.
- Your patients are children in critical care, within the cleared indication.
- An outside site's revalidation matters to your committee.
- You need waveforms and device data captured and stored across manufacturers.
- Bedside teams, telemetry technicians and command centers should see them in a browser.
- EHR labs, medications and admissions should sit beside the device data.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Etiometry and Sickbay are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Etiometry | Sickbay |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Inpatient Deterioration & Risk Monitoring | Inpatient Deterioration & Risk Monitoring |
| Headquarters | Dedham, Massachusetts, United States | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Website | etiometry.com | sickbay.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Etiometry, based in Dedham, Massachusetts, sells a clinical intelligence platform for critical care that combines vendor neutral ICU data aggregation with four FDA cleared physiologic risk indices. The indices do not predict a coded outcome; each estimates the probability that a patient is currently in a defined physiologic state, specified against a laboratory threshold.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Sickbay, from Medical Informatics Corp (MIC) in Houston, is a vendor neutral platform that captures physiologic data and waveforms from bedside monitors, ventilators and other devices across manufacturers, stores them. It also takes in EHR labs, medications and admissions, and routes device data to the EHR.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Etiometry and Sickbay work with the EHR?
The FAQ describes Epic and Oracle Health (Cerner) sending admissions and laboratory results over standard HL7 interfaces, with medications, procedures and diagnoses captured through Etiometry's FHIR application and SMART on FHIR single sign-on, and Meditech over HL7.
With Sickbay, the 2015 510(k) summary describes EHR labs, medications and admissions received in HL7 and stored for redisplay, and device data routed to the EHR; the company describes HL7 interfaces pushing cleansed telemetry data into the EHR for documentation and billing. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Etiometry and Sickbay priced and sold?
In Etiometry's case, the platform is licensed to hospitals and installed on hospital virtual servers, with a described implementation (technical readiness, super user and unit training, ongoing clinical meetings) that can take about two months; device data may arrive through integration platforms the hospital licenses separately.
For Sickbay, the company says the platform supports unlimited users and runs on the hospital's own infrastructure, sells through reseller partners that offer managed services, and markets savings on bedside integration hardware and remote nursing station costs. Nothing states the unit of charge (monitored beds, device interfaces or data volume), implementation fees, or who pays for connectivity hardware. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Etiometry and Sickbay handle patient data?
With Etiometry, the platform runs inside the hospital's environment, which limits exposure for identified data.
The company says Sickbay is hosted only on the hospital's own network or cloud under the hospital's security standards, which keeps the archive in the customer's environment. The privacy notice of 12 May 2026 states that it does not cover services involving protected health information, and no document for the service addresses retention, de-identification or secondary use. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Etiometry and Sickbay cover?
For Etiometry, the cleared indications (K254066) confine three of the four indices to children 0 to 12 years in intensive care and allow IDO2 in adults only in intensive care and off mechanical circulatory support; the data aggregation module is cleared for adult, pediatric and neonatal patients.
With Sickbay, the 2015 clearance covers hospital use, and its summary names ICU and emergency patients. The company now markets ICU, telemetry and virtual command center use, emergency departments, neonatal and pediatric care, and a rural health offering, and its post on the Intel Capital partnership mentions at-home monitoring, which the clearance's hospital setting does not reach. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Inpatient Deterioration & Risk Monitoring page.
Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither publishes a price. Sickbay describes configured logic as AI, publishes little on its own security, and calls itself the only cleared platform of its kind, a claim this page does not rely on.
Ask both which outputs their clearances cover, in writing.