Open Space
Project name: Open Space by Leaf Technologies Group
Team Members: Hyungsin Kim, Neil W Russell, Alicia Sanchez
Motivation:
- Enhance Patient / Provider communication
- Patients feel they “waste time” in ER
- Improve patient experience in ER
- Utilize space in triage and treatment rooms
Problem:
There is deficient communication between healthcare providers and patients in the ER.
- Technical language may confuse patients
- Patients in distress and pain, not the best circumstances to listen to the hospital staff at the time of triage or treatment
- Lack of tools that facilitate communication with patients in a more basic level
Solution: Open SpaceSM provides a multimedia interactive screen that can be used to play educational videos, display important messages, and communicate with friends, family and healthcare providers. Not only will this communication centered tool provide a new patient-provider dynamic in the emergency room, we propose to leverage a new business model for self-service and provider generated content (e.g. YouTube or Wikipedia).
Open Space is an interface that:
- Facilitates communication between patients and healthcare providers
- Provides information to patients about their current visit to the ER
- Educates patients about their medical condition and planned procedures
- Offers entertainment to the patient and/or family who are waiting
Open Space Final Documentation
Poster
Brochure
Project Presentation Slides
Full Report
Invention Disclosure Form
