The concept of the hospital has evolved, over time, to become that of an institution central in advancing clinical techniques.
Today hospitals are facing new challenges. New technical solutions can support patient care and provide new services for the staff. On the other side those technologies require more space devoted to machinery, and impose new constraints. Hospitals have to give the best patient care. This focus will drive significant changes in managing physical spaces, staffing strategies, and patient care models. Technology will be the thread that ties those innovations together. Improved clinical documentation and automated admissions will minimize errors and improve efficiency. Patientmonitoring devices will allow doctors to manage patients from afar. Smart beds that automatically transmit patients’ biological signals can alert nurses. Robots that glide through halls can assist visitors and transport equipment. Technology should allow hospitals to reach three goals: improve clinical care, reduce error rates, and reduce patient stress.
REMEDIA Project accepted this challenge. Students of both teams have worked to understand the problems with the external tutor from San Raffaele Hospital (HSR). Finally they identified a list of improvable conditions, and worked on solutions:
– to improve the mobility of patients and visitors,
– to improve the daily staff’s activity with new tools to manage
the ambient conditions.
Principal Academic Tutor
Giuseppina Gini
Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
Academic Tutors
Alessandro Carlini
Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
Claudio Germak
Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino
Bartolomeo Montrucchio
Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
Lucia Rampino
Industrial Design, Arts, Communication and Fashion, Politecnico di Milano
External institution
Fondazione San Raffaele
del Monte Tabor
External Tutors
Alberto Sanna
IRIS – Innovation & Research in life and health Services Unit,
Fondazione San Raffaele del Monte Tabor
Team members
TEAM A
Giovanni Luongo [Team controller], Management, Economics and Industrial
Engineering
Ivan Cenci, Biomedical Engineering
Francesca Maria Claudio [Project Communication Coordinator], Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Pierluigi Dalla Rosa, Engineering for Cinema and Methods of Communications
Jacopo Spigaroli, Architecture
TEAM B
Giacomo Saibene [Team controller], Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Alessandro Barardi, Mathematical modelling in Engineering
Michael Boris Mandirola, Computer Engineering
Alessandra Lo Moro, Biomedical Engineering
Valerio Turri, Automation Engineering