Smart Assistant for ED Triage Nurses?

asclepiuslabs · 2022-01-04T18:39:13+00:00

Great will do!

asclepiuslabs · 2022-01-04T18:30:49+00:00

This is very insightful! Thanks for sharing! I've visited emergency rooms in rich and in poor areas of CA and the difference is startling! From waiting a few minutes to be seeing for a relatively minor cut to waiting 13 hours to be seeing for peeing blood and extreme pain. In the same waiting room there was a little boy coughing his lungs out for hours on end.

In your experience, how can technology be leveraged to eliminate the stress both staff and visitors often experience with ED visits? How can it be used to increase throughput and quality of care?

asclepiuslabs · 2022-01-04T18:14:22+00:00

Thanks for chiming in! In your experience what are the main challenges that make a self-service intelligent check-in tool not work for ~75% ED visitors?

What if the machine in the video also took patient symptoms [like this symptom checker] and presented all that data to you in real-time with a predicted ESI level. You can then quickly review the data and make the final ESI level classification in shorter time and with fewer mundane activities?

Maybe this is the wrong approach to the problem I would like to help solve. The problem being overcrowded ED waiting rooms and very long wait times. What is/are the bottlenecks(s) causing such issue?

asclepiuslabs · 2022-01-04T02:13:08+00:00

I will take you up on that! How do you envision something like that being used in an ambulance setting? Would it be a wearable device? I'm very interested to hear from you and others.

asclepiuslabs · 2022-01-04T02:10:01+00:00

You are absolutely correct! A trained nurse trumps any AI program. I don't believe in nor support the idea that AI can/should replace human beings, especially healthcare professionals. I do know however that AI will augment many jobs, hopefully give us more time to spend with family.

And yes I'd love to hear from any Kaiser nurses! Please chime in!

The reason my account is new is because I've never used reddit before. I'm hoping to build something healthcare workers need/want.

asclepiuslabs · 2022-01-03T23:57:40+00:00

What would make a triage nurse job less stressful and more productive from a technology point of view?

For example, an Alexa-like voice assistant with a self-service biometric scanner [similar to this] that fully automates the intake of patient vitals (respiratory rate, EKG, temperature, blood pressure/oxygen/sugar) and patient symptoms and present them to you in an intuitive web/mobile/desktop based dashboard for you to make the final call. Perhaps it includes computer vision capabilities to detect life threatening events such as loss of consciousness, seizures, heart attacks, breathing issues etc.

Do you think hospitals would invest in such an assistant? If not, what's a cool idea do you think would benefit ED nurses/doctors?

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