Newspaper Structure

Project #1 - Literature survey

Understanding Preventable Hospital Readmissions: Causes and Best Practices

This paper includes an overview of preventable hospital readmissions, and it focuses on its causes and best practices.

by: Zhuoyang Li Report: Media:Zhuoyang-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation File:Readmission ppt Zhuoyang Li.pptx

Retained Foreign Bodies

The topic I focus on is retained foreign bodies, which are instruments or objects left inside a patient during surgery and are unaccounted for at the end, and a solution to help decrease the occurance rate.

by: Eric Esposito Report: media:Eric-RFB.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Eric-slides.ppt

Health Coach Companion

This paper includes the literature review of definition of chronic disease and review of behavior changes that stick.

by: Lorissa MacAllister Report: Media:Lorissa-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Lorissa-slides.ppt

Healthcare Design of the Future: Reducing Bouncebacks

One sentence summary - This paper includes the literature review of how the discharge process affects readmission rates.

by: Laura Sims Report: Media:Laura-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Laura-slides.pptx

Readmission in relation to early follow-up

One sentence summary - This paper includes the literature review of readmission problems

by: Asger Juul Møller Report: Media:Asger-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Asger-slides.ppt

Discharge Planning and Social Involvement

This paper includes the literature review of Discharge planning: Exploring strategies to increase social involvement

by: Durga Kudtarkar Report: Media:Durga-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Durga-slides.pptx

Addressing the Problem of Hospital Readmissions

This paper consists of research from a comprehensive literature review of hospital readmissions.

by: Arya Sedehi Report: Media:Arya-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Arya-slides.ppt

How to deliver understandable knowledge of heart-failure recovery plan

This paper includes the literature review of readmission causes in general, readmission problems in heart failure, and ways to deliver understandable knowledge about heart-failure recovery plan to the patients.

by: Tania Pramanik Report: Media:Tania-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Tania-slides.pptx

Improving the Quality of Life for Patients with Incurable Diseases at the Terminal Stage of Illness

What are the possible ways of improving the quality of life and care at home for terminally ill people as the means of decreasing the readmission rate.

by: Khatereh Hadi Report: Media:Hadi-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:hadi-slides.pptx

Paper title

This paper addresses the issues of poor communication among doctors.

by: Brandon Whitehead Report: Media:Brandon-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Brandon-presentation.pdf

Readmissions: How geographical location of hospitals affects the rate of readmission

What are Readmissions,explore causes and solutions and focus on how the geographical location of hospitals affects the rate of readmissions.

by: Shubhshankar Murugaiah Sankachelvi Report: Media:Shubhshankar-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:shubhshankar-slides.ppt

Overview of Readmissions: with focus on elderly patients who take multiple medications

This paper includes the literature review of readmission problems

by: Tiffany Formby Report: Media:Tiffany-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:TiffanyReadmission.pptx

Overview of the readmission problem in US hospitals

A review of the hospital readmission problem, focusing on poor access to primary care as being a major factor in diverting patients to hospital emergency rooms to seek care after initial discharge.

by: Lubna Rashid Report: Media:Lubna-paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation The Hospital Readmission Problem in the US.pptx

How to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

This paper includes the literature review of Hospital Readmission, the causes of readmission and how to reduce them.

by: Pramit Sengupta Report: Media:Pramit paper.pdf Pecha-Kucha Presentation Media:Pramit Hospital Readmission.pptx

Project #2 - Healthcare Future Reduce Bouncebacks Initial team forming (10/13)

1. Safety

a. Surgical error

b. Medical Error

2. Home

a. Aftercare

i. Adherence

(TAF, BOW, AJM) Tiffany Formby & Brandon Whitehead & Asger Juul Møller

ii. Wellness/ behavior

iii. Activities daily log

b. Communications

c. Hospice

(LMS, KH) Laura Sims & Khatereh Hadi

3. Clinical

a. Discharge, aftercare, wellness, communication

b. Setting

c. Materials

d. Family space/ involvement during care

(ZL, PS, LKM)

Zhuoyang Li & Pramit Sengupta & Lorissa MacAllister

e. Behavior change

(AP, DK) & Shankar Tania Pramanik & Durga Kudtarkar & Shubhshankar Murugaiah Sankachelvi

4. Hospital Acquired infection

(LR, AS, EEE)

Lubna Rashid & Arya Sedehi & Eric Esposito

a. Contact

b. Hand washing

c. airborne

Project #3 - Healthcare Future Reduce Bouncebacks teams (due 10/25)

Family space/ involvement during care

Zhuoyang Li & Pramit Sengupta & Lorissa MacAllister

Here is our pecha kuch presentation File:Media-filename.pptx

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Medication Management

Pecha-Kucha slide here File:Adherence.pptx

Team members are Tiffany Formby * Brandon Whitehead * Asger Juul Møller

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Behavior Change in HF Patients

Team members - Tania Pramanik & Durga Kudtarkar & Shubhshankar Murugaiah Sankachelvi

Problem, literature and design ideas are here File:Behavior.pptx

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Hospice Care

Team members are Laura Sims & Khatereh Hadi

Slides File:Video Chat in Home Healthcare-1-.pdf

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Hospital Acquired infection

Team members are: Lubna Rashid & Arya Sedehi & Eric Esposito

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Research Pecha Kucha File:HAI.pptx

Final Projects

Projects from last year - http://hsi.gatech.edu/icu/index.php/Course_Homepage#Final_Projects

Kit of Care

Team members - Zhuoyang Li & Pramit Sengupta & Lorissa MacAllister

Patients bounce back to hospital after discharge often because they are not able to maintain the regiments of treatment at home. There are multiple reasons for this non-adherence such as lack of education or care-giver support, insufficient training to transition, not following the care plan, lack of ability to problem solving etc. To solve these problems, we have developed a 'Kit of Care' which will help the patient and the caregiver to maintain continued healing at home. The anticipated impact of 'Kit of Care' is to assist in reducing hospital readmission.

Our Poster: File:Poster Bounceback final.pdf Our Flyer: File:Kit of Care - Flyer.pdf Our Power Point: File:KitPresentation.pdf

Our Paper: File:Kit of Care paper.pdf

Interactive Pre-packaging Helps Medication Management

Team members are Tiffany Formby * Brandon Whitehead * Asger Juul Møller

Brief: The number of prescriptions and amount of patient education affect medication adherence, which can lead to a higher probability for readmission. Our pre-packaging solution, which includes an interactive QR code, gives the patient an opportunity to be educated and reduce medication confusion.

Poster: File:Prepackaging poster.pdf Brochure: File:BrochureTIF.pdf Power Point: File:Pre-Package final-1.pptx

Report: File:Pre-packaging report.pdf

Behavior change in hospital: Sodium restricted diet

Congestive heart failure is a chronic condition and patients are recommended to comply with dietary sodium restrictions. However research indicates that most patients find it difficult to follow these restrictions and may need help in understanding what constitutes a sodium restricted diet. Through our smart tray we propose a concept that would serve as an interactive tool to provide education and create awareness about a sodium restricted diet while eating their meals in the hospital.

Report: File:SodiumDietReport.pdf, Poster: File:SodiumDietPoster.pdf, Brochure: File:SodiumDietFlyer.pdf, Presentation: File:Behavior Change and SRD.pptx

Team members - Tania Pramanik & Durga Kudtarkar & Shubhshankar Murugaiah Sankachelvi

inTouch: Video Frame Phone of the Future

inTouch is a touch screen picture frame that will allow elderly people to easily communicate with family members and care givers via video chatting.

Team members are Laura Sims & Khatereh Hadi

Poster: File:In Touch poster.pdf Flyer: File:In Touch flyer.pdf Power Point: File:In Touch Presentation.pptx

Report: File:In Touch paper.pdf

Reducing the Impact of Healthcare-Acquired Infections on Hospital Readmissions

Poor hand sanitation is one of the key factors leading to increased healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), ultimately leading to a higher risk of readmission. Non-compliance rates with hand hygiene are high (close to 50%)in hospitals, and even higher in post-discharge facilities, such as Long Term Care Facilities (LTCFs), and up to 3.8 million infections a year occur in LTCFs. We have designed a motion-dependent hand-sanitizer to be used to spray alcohol-based antiseptic on door handles, to sanitize the hands of healthcare personnel and patients with a focus on LTCFs and post-discharge facilities.

Team members are: Lubna Rashid & Arya Sedehi & Eric Esposito

Report: File:HAISanigator.pdf Flyer: Media:flyer.jpg Poster: Media:SaniGator.jpg Presentation: Media:SaniGator.pptx

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