ABOUT THE PROJECT
This project is aimed at exploring basic remote data collection and transmission in healthcare systems. The original project was to build a booth where all the basic health diagnostic units present are touchless. It was designed to be used at the outpatients' department of a hospital, to screen and determine the level of urgency for each patient. COVID has brought attention to the project, The inspiration was drawn from the challenge presented by the pandemic to developing countries such as congestion in hospitals due inadequate health facilities. This challenged the D:Lab to turn the project into a unit that can be used to conduct touchless basic health diagnostics and develop an IoT point of care system (POC). The model is designed to bridge a gap between access to health services and inadequacy of health institutions and congestion in hospitals, The hardware designed seeks to capture the patient's vitals and transmit the information to a web application, This helps the doctor monitor the patient's vitals as well as track the patient's medical history. This technology can be integrated into campuses when they re-open.
ABOUT THE MENTOR
Foster Dodzi Gomado is a design thinking and STEM Enthusiast. He will be heading the Health Kiosk Project this summer.
ABOUT THE TEAM
There are three dedicated members on this inspiring team.
THE JOURNEY
"We are going to use an online collaborative tool tomorrow to synthesize the initial data we collected. We will be developing our empathy map, personas and formulation of our Point of View Statements as well as our How might we Statement, which will guide us into our ideation stage."- Foster Gomado.
Research began In the form of a survey, so as to collate anonymous data from questions sent out to potential stakeholders. The questions read:
"What is your gender?"
"What is your occupation?"
"How frequently do you visit the hospital or clinic?"
"On average, how long does it take you to get to the nearest health facility?"
"Do you have any chronic disease?"
"By which means do you monitor your health status?"
"Are you willing to use a health kiosk that helps you to monitor your health vitals, as well as giving us access to your medical practitioner?"
"What purpose will you like to use a health monitoring system for?"
"Will you be willing to pay for a system like this?"
"Will you be happy if your insurance caters to such a service?"
"How much does it cost to treat you at your local health center?"
From the results of the first survey, the team discovered that participants did not visit the hospital frequently. They then conducted a follow up:
"In our recent survey, we discovered that many people visit the hospital yearly. If you have any reason, would you let us know why you visit the hospital less frequently(at least every month)?"
More interestingly, using the collated data; problem solving techniques such as persona mapping and empathy mapping were used to better understand the problem space and analyze the user better.
EMPATHY MAP
PERSONA MAP
IDEATION ROOM
Technologies to be incorporated in the Health Kiosk are:
Body Mass Index(BMI) Calculator- Automated Self-Request
Blood Pressure Profile
Kiosk Location Maps
Admin and Patients Interface
Live Chat Feature
Ultrasonic sensor for measuring height
Finite State Machine(Video below)
Video credit: Jude Watimongo
ILLUSTRATION
It is comprised of a hardware component that collects patients’ vitals and transmits them to an online database. Vitals can then be accessed from a web application that collects patient health records and enables doctors to track, monitor, and provide diagnoses or prescriptions. All this is intended to be done at a relatively low cost to the patient, to bridge the gap between availability and demand for healthcare.
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