How one hospital is using a smart app to bolster PPE protection against COVID | LisaVisentin
There are 103 ways a doctor can make a mistake when putting on or taking off personal protective equipment and any one of the errors can expose them to COVID-19, forcing them off the frontlines and into isolation.
The app, created by cardiothoracic surgeon Michael Wilson in collaboration with software developer Terry Carney, audits health care workers in real time using facial recognition technology and a phone or computer camera to “observe” the process. When it detects an error, workers are blocked from proceeding to the next step unless they make a correction.
The app uses facial recognition technology to guide health workers through the proper donning and doffing off PPE.As daily case numbers surge in NSW and Victoria, the risk of exposure to frontline workers has never being higher, and their absence from the workforce more keenly felt, as hospitals shift to skeleton staff and a fresh rotation of medical interns over the summer months., furloughed because they had either contracted or been exposed to coronavirus.
“Having a system in place that takes out human error is a great solution and could reduce the number of healthcare workers furloughed as a result of exposure,” he said.
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