Hospitals of the future
At this year’s Australian Healthcare Week event in Sydney, a group of leading technology experts, UPLINX, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE), Omni-Health and New Voice, will join forces to demonstrate the cutting-edge technology we hope to find in hospitals and healthcare facilities in future years.
The combined stall will be a conceptual look at devices and technology reliant upon Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT-connected hardware and Robotics. We will demonstrate the enormous potential for advanced technologies to make a positive difference in healthcare and patient outcomes. The technology on display portrays a quantum leap – a glimpse into a possible future, rather than reiterating existing technology.
According to the experts, hospitals will become health hubs and a part of a larger system that offers outpatient, ambulatory care, retail, virtual and home services. By 2040 there will be significantly fewer hospital beds, with most hospitals becoming customer-focused factories catering to procedures for critical care and complex patients who require specialised treatments or multiple specialist attention. General patient care, including monitoring, can be extended to delivery outside the traditional hospital building, in either a hospital-at-home or a virtual hospital setting.
Among the integrated solutions at a hospital itself, IoT sensors will take centre stage, where digital control centres receive a variety of information for assessment and processing. This information will include clinical alerts and alarms, the monitoring of temperature and air quality, security system notifications , asset and patient tracking, bed status and much, much more. All of this has the purpose of streamlining and improving the day-to-day running of a healthcare facility.
AI-driven solutions will function towards prevention of patient injuries and wanderings, and assist the medical staff to respond promptly when incidents occur. Such solutions allow nurses to focus on their immediate work while AI systems monitor constantly and consistently 24/7 for risks in the wards.
Advanced Robotics will also play a key role in future healthcare operations, providing support to patients and clinical staff. It will be possible to move facets of healthcare support away from dependency on central hospitals. Robotics will contribute to interviews and treatment of patients who are remote to medical facilities, while being supported by clinical staff that are working from a hospital or home office. All this made possible by multi-functional Robotics with in-built two-way communications systems; the robot being the healthcare worker’s virtual ‘eyes and ears’ in front of the patient, despite the human, physical separation.
Robots will assist to streamline the hospital‘s daily operations, not just through the relay of patient status alerts, but in support also of catering. They will be capable of taking patient food requests, the delivery of it to bedsides and the monitoring of the meal consumption. This will all have positive impact on the patient journey and satisfaction.
All devices demonstrated in our future hospital concept, at our Healthcare Week booth, rely explicitly on robust network connectivity, with a backbone of communications equipment provided by ALE, global leader in digital-age networking, communications and cloud infrastructure solutions. The smart mobile robots are supplied by Omni-Health, an expert in healthcare automation solutions in the Asia Pacific region. The command centre software that we present, is MobiCall, by New Voice, global leader and innovator in security and alarm management solutions. The architectural design and systems integration is delivered by UPLINX, a leading solutions provider for healthcare and other industry verticals in Australia and NZ. Together, these four companies are working to demonstrate how the future of healthcare could look in Australia.
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