Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SmartNurse (Bringing persuasive computing training assistance for healthcare personnel from lab experiments to educational practice)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2017-05-01 al 2018-10-31
Even though Smart Devices increasingly permeating into hospital environments facilitate more efficient use while also acquiring new and complex capabilities (Bolton, Gassert, and Cipriano, 2008), false use can bring unexpected and potentially life-threatening complications (e.g. Rothschild et al., 2005). One reason for lack of success or worse for introducing unexpected complications it the fact that a huge number of devices and applications were not developed with the intents to use in healthcare or specifically for nurse training.
Therefore, to successfully establish newly developed an innovative clinical smart device application in real clinical and training routines, SmartNurse strives to fully understand whether such devices can bring actual benefit to health care and how to exploit it fully. Furthermore, SmartNurse wants to understand how to integrate these devices into existing structures while at the same limiting potential miss-use or complications, and finally, understand the potential of the market. This also includes understanding, not only the practical requirement and the technical do-abilities, but also the legal, ethical, and regulatory constraints.
During the course of the project, SmartNurse collected all practical, legal and ethical requirements essential to establish the SmartNurse nurse training assistant in real-life nurse training. Further, it analyzed all technical challenges to accomplish the practical, legal and ethical requirements and in line of it developed different instant-feedback CPR-assistant devices that were tested and evaluated in regards to standard human teaching sessions. Eventually, SmartNurse pre-develop some business strategies, including financial requirements and options necessary to reach market traction, further indentifying steps necessary in order to bring this product to the market.
Therefore, to successfully establish newly developed an innovative clinical smart device application in real clinical and training routines, SmartNurse strives to fully understand whether such devices can bring actual benefit to health care and how to exploit it fully. Furthermore, SmartNurse wants to understand how to integrate these devices into existing structures while at the same limiting potential miss-use or complications, and finally, understand the potential of the market. This also includes understanding, not only the practical requirement and the technical do-abilities, but also the legal, ethical, and regulatory constraints.
During the course of the project, SmartNurse collected all practical, legal and ethical requirements essential to establish the SmartNurse nurse training assistant in real-life nurse training. Further, it analyzed all technical challenges to accomplish the practical, legal and ethical requirements and in line of it developed different instant-feedback CPR-assistant devices that were tested and evaluated in regards to standard human teaching sessions. Eventually, SmartNurse pre-develop some business strategies, including financial requirements and options necessary to reach market traction, further indentifying steps necessary in order to bring this product to the market.
In order to achieve SmartNurse' goals, first, all practical, legal, and ethical requirements essential to establish the SmartNurse nurse training assistant in real-life nurse training were evaluated. Based on these requirements different potential devices (smartwatch, smart-glass, and augmented reality device) were identified and tested by a small group of nurses. Since the testers did not favor one device in particular but essentially determined that all of them provide valuable support in specific fields in CPR, prototypes for all three devices were built. In order to gain an understanding of the potential CPR-assistant devices will bring, all three prototypes were evaluated against standard teaching methods and all three outperformed standard teaching significantly. While a standard teaching session improves the performance of trainees by around 10%, comparable training with the assistant devices improved the performance by up to 25%.
After reaching the proof of concept for the CPR assistant devices, a business concept was developed for turning the initial idea and prototype into a MVP and to reach the market.
The results of the scientific evaluation very published an presented to an interested audience in two conferences. Further publications, particular in the field of medical training will follow.
Additional dissemination includes BBC reports and other presentations.
After reaching the proof of concept for the CPR assistant devices, a business concept was developed for turning the initial idea and prototype into a MVP and to reach the market.
The results of the scientific evaluation very published an presented to an interested audience in two conferences. Further publications, particular in the field of medical training will follow.
Additional dissemination includes BBC reports and other presentations.
The main progress beyond the state of the art is the comparison of standard teaching of CPR with autonomously training with an assistant device. The results of this comparison are clearly in favor of the devices.