Your Patient, Resident, or Staff Tested COVID Positive…Now What?
There is universal consensus on the importance of contact tracing to protect residents, patients, and staff in acute care and senior living facilities, but there is a wide and growing chasm on how contact tracing actually happens. That chasm has paper sign-in sheets on one side, and dated, expensive, technology on the other. Over 90% […]
Falls in Senior Care: A Multidimensional Problem That Needs a Multidimensional Solution
Bad things happen to patients and residents when they are alone and behind closed doors. Due to staffing shortages, increasing nursing home admissions, and lack of practical and valuable solutions, it is nearly impossible for nursing staff to have eyes on their patients and residents at all times, but now more than ever, it is […]
Computer Vision – The New Frontier of Healthcare
When we hear about computer vision, it’s typically in the context of self driving cars or automated manufacturing processes. “Computer vision is the automated extraction of information from images. Information can mean anything from 3D models, camera position, to object detection” (1). Imagine a world where your car can automatically detect obstacles and turns, all […]
Too Many Patients, Not Enough Staff – How Do We Adapt?
Not counting the impact of a pandemic, the number of patients seeking care has been increasing and will continue to increase due to the aging population and increase in life expectancy in the US. In addition, caring for these patients is more complex. Patients and residents over the age of 65 with multiple chronic conditions […]