Andersen Explains How New Technologies Make Healthcare More Convenient

Industry: Apps & Software

With the development of medical technologies, a patient's stay in the hospital can even be enjoyable. And how is this going at medical institutions in Eastern Europe?

New York, NY (PRUnderground) September 4th, 2020

The lack of sophisticated technologies in hospitals is not just “out of fashion” but highly dangerous. We often talk about medical errors, but doctors have to remember hundreds of patients every day and do many hours of rounds to check the condition of each patient; nurses deliver pills, insert IVs, and send patients to various procedures. Sometimes these routine processes are not automated, so mistakes are inevitable.

So far, in Russia, continuous monitoring of patients only occurs in intensive care units. Usually, this merely includes monitoring the heartbeat and sometimes the breathing. The rest of the patients have to wait until the doctor manually takes all their readings.

The simplest solution to the problem is to provide patients with smart bracelets that monitor key metrics such as temperature, pulse rate, and blood pressure. The data can be synchronized with the hospital’s medical information system – thus, the doctor can view statistics of changes in a patient’s condition by the hour at any time. If the bracelet detects critical indicators, the nurse on duty will receive alerts describing the problem.

Some patients are unable to open the window to ventilate the room or simply tell the doctor that it’s stuffy. Therefore, hospitals shouldn’t go without a smart microclimate control system – a sensor system that continuously collects data on air temperature, humidity, and quality. If something is wrong, nurses receive an alert with a recommendation. Alternatively, a human can be completely excluded from this chain: actuators (like an air purifier) connected to the IoT system will turn on only when the sensors detect a problem.

Many private hospitals already have electronic patient cards. But with state medical centers, things are much worse: in order to find the desired medical history, personnel at the registration point run among shelves with pieces of paper that have been collected over the years and have to be sorted alphabetically.

There are two options for putting such things in order:

  1. Digitize all archives.

  2. Use RFID tags.

An RFID tag with expiration dates is put on each package, a reading antenna is placed nearby, and the system itself records the volume of medicines every second. And at the end of the month, without human intervention, statistics on the medicines used are collected, and nobody will be able to quietly write off opioids.

The technology for tracking the movement of medical personnel via a personal badge (it can be either a GPS or an RFID tag) allows checking how well each employee does their job: how much time is spent in the staff lounge, and how much time is spent on communicating with patients.

Incidentally, a system with data about each employee independently forms a work schedule for employees, based on the shifts worked last month and predictive analytics. For example, the system takes into account that there is an influx of patients with flu in the hospital every September, which means that more doctors need to come to work during this period.

To get more information, contact Andersen.

About Andersen

Andersen is a software development company with a full cycle of services. For over 13 years, we have been helping enterprises around the world to transform business by creating effective digital solutions with the use of innovative technologies.

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