B. COURTNEY · D. HUYNH · D. MOLANDER · M. MCLAUGHLIN · S. PATEL

SUPERVISOR : DR. SUNNY WONG SPONSOR : SIEMENS HEALTHCARE

Brief Background

● Current workflow

● Five rights of medicine administration:

1. Right patient

2. Right drug

3. Right dosage

4. Right route

5. Right time

● Improve nursing medicine distribution

a. Reduce number of errors in nursing healthcare.

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Simplifying the Problem

● There is a lot of room for error

○ Crushed pills

○ Wrong dosage

○ Incorrect IV

○ Reading warning labels

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Our Solution

● Detect errors in the environment

○ Wrong patient

○ Wrong medication

● Alert caretaker

Simplifying the Problem

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Development Tools

● Asana Project Management

● Google Drive, Hangout

● BitBucket

● Eclipse

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ArchitecturePresentation layer

● Android powered devices● User interface● Barcode reader

Logic layer

● GlassFish● JAX-RS REST API + JSON● Google Gson● Android httpClient● PHP data miner

Data layer

● MySQL DB

SQLQuery

JSON

Android SDK

MySQL5.5.34

Typical 3-tier architecture

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● Zbar (GNU LGPL 2.1)

● Cross-platform Java

● Lightweight

○ Low power consumption

○ Easy on CPU

● Simple API

Barcode Library

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GUI

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GUI

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GUI

● Object Detection using images is not accurate

● Barcode scanning depends heavily on resolution of camera

● Battery life may be insufficient for single shift use

● Failure to model healthcare system

● Unable to test in real world environment

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Upcoming Risks

Risk Mitigation

● Give priority to object detection development

● Set resolution minimum requirement (4 Mpx)

● Set battery minimum requirement (depends on amp draw)

● Discuss workflow with current working nurses

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Moving Forward

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ProblemDefinition

● Researching● Risks● Data Mining● Interactions● Warnings● Prototype

● Code clean● Object

Detection● Inference

Sept. 2013 Dec.2013

Mar.2014

June2014

● Doing better object detection

● Machine learning

● Google Glass testing

Real-time error checking with Ashvin

Beyond 2014

B. COURTNEY · D. HUYNH · D. MOLANDER · M. MCLAUGHLIN · S. PATEL

SUPERVISOR : DR. SUNNY WONG SPONSOR : SIEMENS HEALTHCARE

PRODUCT DEMO