Matt Darling develops Smart Ward hospital technology after time spent with terminally ill daughter

A father inspired by time spent in hospital with his terminally ill daughter has invented a computer system to help hospital staff cut down on paperwork.

The trial of the computerised Smart Ward patient system has yielded impressive results at two hospitals in Melbourne.

The system, which uses touch screens and smartchips in lanyards and wristbands to update patient information, was developed by Canberra tech guru Matt Darling.

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I read an article about that and because that is the way my mind rolls I can see some wank word alert impressive synergies to come. I have a little experience of hospital and I think when it is all integrated the results will be impressive. At the moment every patient has a binder in which data is transcribed. More and more this data is from digital devices, how much simpler for the nurse on her observation rounds to have the machine speak directly to the patient binder. Tis only a step away from real time constant monitoring and no nurse rounds.

Lots of potential.

Do they mean every bed has a touch screen, or every nurse has a touch smart device?

would similar improvements combating duplication if similar systems were to be integrated in public service, education admin, military and police networks etc?

would a 20% figure be reflective of duplication in other professions?

CrazyNeutrino said:

would a 20% figure be reflective of duplication in other professions?

idk, but an hourglass figure is nice on the ladies……..

CrazyNeutrino said:

would a 20% figure be reflective of duplication in other professions?

I would think not. Not many professions require as much time sensitive data collection. In peacetime at least.

There has been multiple times when a nurse has come to give me drugs only to zip off and find my charts because one of the doctors has it. Only a small example but multiply that by all the nurses finding charts on a daily basis. Same with physios etc, if they could all access the one “binder” any time they liked it would be a time saving right there.

I always have to write down the same information everytime I apply for a course
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but more specifically I find I duplicate information I know is already there and know is already correct, when I re-enrol for year 2 of a course that runs over more than one year, some two, some 3 or 4 etc

thats in ed admin

yes your right, things would be different elsewhere

one might be able to tweak that hospital system by linking equipment like blood pressure readings straight to a nurses pda/admin computer over bluetooth, nfc ?

maybe when patients are ID’ed at checkin, smart hospital bracelets could be designed and made to hospital conditions, collecting data like the fitness trackers.

looks around the web

Personal Tragedy, Tricorders and the Idea of Mapping One’s Body

When Walter De Brouwer puts his head to something, he can produce single-handedly what usually takes several hospital machines and labs. His single hand, it should be said, holds a small and promising device with which Mr. De Brouwer, the co-founder and chief executive of Scanadu, hopes to remake medicine.

The object Scanadu is working on is an oval disk about two inches wide and a half-inch thick. Held to the forehead, it uses light to measure oxygen intake, an accelerometer to figure out how far the chest extends in breathing, and a small electrical plate under the thumb to measure heart rate. Other sensors, some still in development, will measure temperature, blood pressure and other body functions.

In some cases the sensors are taking direct measurements, including some from a mild circuit that is created by the loop of the arm to the forehead and through the body, which the device reads and sends to a smartphone app. Still others are planned to deduce more information, using software that draws from among the different measurements.

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like that, a smart app that can connect data to a nurses, touchscreen pda and admin computer both at once

CrazyNeutrino said:

maybe when patients are ID’ed at checkin, smart hospital bracelets could be designed and made to hospital conditions, collecting data like the fitness trackers.

No reason why not. I know I have the same hospital number at every visit and my details and scans can be accessed via that number.

Just put an RFID chip in the long term users of the system

Hospitals need to be set up like production lines