Personal Waiting Room Assistant

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Personal Waiting Room Assistant

• Presented by
• Jessica Nance, Hyorim Park, Deepa Rajan

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The Problems

• Patients are bored
• Causes Stress
• Can worsen condition
• Patients lack information
• Adds to stress and boredom
• Unrealistic expectations
• Less willing to wait

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Personal Waiting Room Assistant Components
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Personal Waiting Room Assistant Components

• Registration
• Upon receiving the ER Assistant the patient will
  be asked to enter that information into the
  system.
• This information will be sent to the
  receptionist.
• Hopefully functionality will allow for
  integration with the hospitals EHR

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Self Registration
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Personal Waiting Room Assistant Components

• Monitors vital signs
• The Assistant will have an attachment that will
  take the patients vital signs
• These will be loaded to a screen for the nurses
  to monitor while the patient is in the waiting
  room.

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Monitors Vital Signs
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Personal Waiting Room Assistant Components

• Gives Information about the wait that may be
  incurred and the triage process
• Following registration the device will inform the
  patient about estimated wait time for the patient
• Information about the triage process and the ED
  will also be given.

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Providing Information
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Personal Waiting Room Assistant Components

• Provides Positive Distraction for the patients
• Options
• Tour of the Hospitals ED
• Google Earth
• Satellite view of other areas of the world (NYC,
  DC, grand canyon etc)

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Providing Positive Distraction