Monitoring System for Emergency Service in a Hospital Environment
Alessandra Crystian Engles do Reis, Fernanda Coutinho, João Paulo Ferreira, C. Tonelo, Liliana Ferreira, João M. Quintas · 2019
The hospital emergency service remains the first choice for the vast majority of patients. The large influx of hospital emergency services, combined with the lack of health professionals, often makes the patients susceptible to excessive waiting times. As a result, their health condition may worse after triage, until they are observed by a doctor. In the developed prototype, a bracelet is placed on the patient's wrist, which reads their vital signs, accompanied by a mobile phone with an Android application, designed to send the collected vital signs data, as well as patient's location, periodically, to a server. There is a database, with the information of all patients under care and, through a dashboard, the interface is made with the health professionals. Such interface alerts the professional whenever a situation is considered critical. The prototype was positively evaluated by the usability tests carried out and could be considered a Minimum Viable Product in the business perspective.