1) Sustainability problem: Health
2) Name of the technology: Vital Signs Monitoring
Company: MindWave
Link:http://www.mindwaveglobalcorp.com/vital-signs-monitoring/
- The sensors capture a host of vital statistics, such as pulse rate, oxygen saturation, temperature and blood pressure
- This data is transmitted to a central dashboard, where a nurse is able to remotely monitor several patients on a single screen. Alerts are raised when certain thresholds are breached
- This solution enables continuous real-time monitoring which allow patient vital statistics data to be co-related across an unlimited number of variables (e.g. age, gender, ethnicity, medication, dosage, diet, medical ailments), strengthening the medical team’s ability to assess, identify and diagnose with greater accuracy
- Improves operational staff efficiency in managing patient care data, which in turn eliminates critical mistakes which can occur in manual data capture
- Faster time to action through early notifications that enables caregivers to decide which patients to address on a priority basis
- MindWave Solutions’ vital signs monitoring solution is currently going through a trial in a local clinic in Singapore with 50 patients.
3) Stakeholders:
- Health authorities
- Citizens
- Hospitals
- Universities
4) First 3 steps:
- Partener with public hospitals
- Conduct a pilot
- Invest in infrastructure, logistics and application of the technology
vn2216: Viviane Gandolfi
makeasmartcity 
People are becoming more comfortable with this type of technology. As long as there are professionals who can respond on a timely basis we should be able to see improvements in the health of the population
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This is a really interesting use of telemedicine – I like that this allows nurses to monitor multiple patients on a single screen, and also see the estimated times of all critical patients that will be arriving via ambulance.
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This solution is great especially in countries that are facing the aging society problem like Japan. In my opinion in the short e-health solutions are going to revolutionize preventive health issues.
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