region blekinge – Design for Wellbeing

C-connect – The future of medical monitoring

Tobias Larsson — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:15:51 +0000

Challenge: A solution that delays the need of help from the home care in Karlskrona

Solution: In the future the population of seniors is expected to grow. This is a problem for the society since the workers will have to take care of more seniors. Therefore a solution that delays the need of help from the home care is necessary. When examine current problems among seniors, the project team found two common safety issues. The first one is that seniors felt more safe when they knew that someone was checking up on them, to know that the person is alright. The second one is that seniors felt more safe if they could contact someone when needed.

The solution was a watch band that have sensors and a button. The sensors will monitor information regarding a person’s health status. The information that will be monitored is body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar and blood oxygen. This to fulfill the first issue. The button will be an emergency button, that the seniors can use to contact someone when needed. This to fulfill the second issue.

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LARM system – At home monitoring system

Tobias Larsson — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:58:35 +0000

Challenge: To help creative innovative solutions for Landstinget Blekinge for patients to get at home healthcare / solutions for mobile teams.

Solution: Sensors that collect data from the user and communicate to the user via an app. The data is also sent to a monitoring central at the hospital that evaluates the results.

Impact: By removing the patients from the hospital to their home, there is more space cleared up at the hospital for the patients who are more in emergency conditions instead. The patients that stay from home, get to feel “less sick” due to the fact that they get to stay home.

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Emergency room process improvement

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:12:32 +0000

A better tomorrow starts with a better healthcare. Where patients and doctors can help one another and make the hospital a place of mutual respect and top of the line, effective healthcare. Our system wants to do this and much more. With better patient flow and better background on every patient the hospital will be able to give a more secure healthcare and calmer environment.

In the course “MT2502, Creativity for Product- and Service Development” (Master programme in Mechanical Engineering) students Henning Bakke, Henrik Kvist and Isac Vidman decided to take a walk on a different side and go for a project on how to improve the emergency room process.

In their report “Patient Receiving – How can we make a system that will improve the efficiency of the patients receiving in the Emergency room for both patients and staff?” they target emergency rooms, that nowadays have long waits that can affect staff and patients in a bad way. Stress and malpractice can be a daily routine in which the patient have to return for new diagnostics. According to Svenska Dagbladet, many patients choose to turn to private healthcare, where they think they will get better treatment.

Case: Emergency room process improvement

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