Stanford Health Care

History

2019: Opening of smart hospital with robots for $2.1 billion

In the middle of November, 2019 it became known of creation of smart hospital by Stanford University in which robots and technologies of Internet of Things are used.

The medical institution is located in the territory of a university campus. About $2.1 billion are invested in it.

It became known of creation of smart hospital by Stanford University in which robots and technologies of Internet of Things are used

In hospital robots who decompose the received medicines on packagings are delivered and place them on distribution points from where other robots bring drugs to chambers of patients. Besides, the robotic personnel can take out garbage and bring clothes.

Operation of all medical equipment deployed in this hospital is controlled by means of sensors. All information is transferred in real time.

Also in medical institution the MyHealth application which allows patients to contact doctors and nurses, when necessary (for example is applied, at deterioration in health).

At a headboard of hospital beds the tablets allowing to manage temperature, lighting in chamber, etc. are installed. There the smart cameras which help doctors to watch patients are already mounted.

MRT-scanners and another medical the device are integrated with each other and will provide data transmission in one place, simplifying and accelerating decision making by doctors, developers consider.

According to authors of the project, high degree automation is implemented not for reduction of number of staff at all. Robots exempt people from small tasks and allow to focus on accomplishment many times of more important tasks and to increase productivity of work.

As explained at Stanford University, the hi-tech hospital is developed so that when time to update technologies comes, everything had not to be dismantled. For example, infrastructure is prepared for transition to a 5G network.^[1]

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