- Current medical care is:
- Inefficient (i.e. pagers)
- Involves the use of multiple sources of medical data
- Increasingly time-consuming (56% of ward round [WR] spent on paperwork, 18% on delays/interruptions)
- Fernandes & Eneje report WR inefficiencies in note-taking
- Noted time lost during WR looking for notes, writing medical issues, past medical history
- Average time ~8-9.5 minutes medical WR per patient
- Reduced to 6 min with electronic data printed for WR
- Innovative solution to efficiency of care
- Use of portable augmented reality (AR) technology for:
- Quick, secure viewing of unique relevant patient medical data linked to ID
- Dynamic vital sign presentation
- Linked with bedside clinical devices
- Linked with medical alert systems
- Viewing relevant medical history in real-time
- Linked with electronic medical records, or manually inputted data
- While easily accessible via smartphone, tablet or customised headset
- Patient identifier, demographics
- Observations/vital signs
- Option to zoom to specific vitals, view trends
- Menu to zoom to relevant history, allergies, medications, bloods
- Secure, two-factor verification for login by physician/treating clinician
- Ability to access data via unique patient code
- Portability of information
- Ability
- Providing dynamic information quickly in real time
- Efficiency
- Potential to improve speed, reduce WR time, improve patient care, reduce length of stay
- Portability
- Can use existing technology – patient labels for use
- Use of AR app on smartphone/tablet
- Headset battery standby of ~6 hours before recharge
- Security
- Carried by clinicians
- Secured by two-factor authentication, intranet system linkage
- DocChARt: innovative new approach to improving clinical efficiency
- Accessible real-time clinical information using adapted software + hardware
- Secure, reliable, and verifiable
- Not a replacement for medical care, but a valuable assistant
- Dr Andrew Nguyen (Australia)
- Mr Diego Brown (US)
- Ms Jannah Mohdshaffie (Malaysia)
- Mr Liam Sorta (UK)
- Ms Wai Ching Lin (Singapore)