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CS 8803 ICU Room of the Future Patient Connect Challenges and Opportunities • We propose to further work with the nurse control system. We initially said that a nurse control interface would be provided to take care of emergency situations. However, there may be times when a nurse is not always present at the nurse station. In such situations, we propose to introduce timers in the nurse control system which will automatically shut down the cameras after a stipulated time in case the nurse is not around to do that herself. • We have made the patient interface as simplistic as possible. We further propose to make the interface even less complex by introducing touch gestures and integrating voice commands with the system. The interface will be installed close to the patient’s bedside and can be activated by mere voice commands and/or touch gestures with minimalistic efforts on the patient end. • The installation of web cameras in the patient room needs to be a done in a systematic way. We need to determine an optimum way for camera placement and location so as to have minimum interference with the existing hospital systems, routines and protocols. 11
CS 8803 ICU Room of the Future Patient Connect Executive Summary: The executive summary of our project is as follows: We address the issue of the family-patient communication particularly the lack of communication when the family members cannot be present at the bedside of the patient. We also address the issue of the family members not being able to see the patient when the patient himself is not conscious enough to start the communication channel. We believe this is an important issue because emotional connection between the patient and his loved ones is considered to be an important means for patient recovery and hence we address the issue here. We do this by providing a secure access to the web cameras installed in the patient’s ICU Room via a web portal. Since it is essentially a web portal that connects to the web cameras, the family members are able to access it via their laptops, ipads and even smart phones and hence can be connected with their loved ones even while traveling. An interface is also provided to the patient at times when he is himself able to start the communication and/or wishes to disable the communication. We have kept this interface as simple as possible involving the least of the efforts from the patient’s end. We have also provided an override system interface for the nurses/hospital staff, which overrides and disables any active communication in case of an emergency or a similar situation. 12
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