A timeline after a fall shows all involved parties at a hospital.
A self-structured timeline to deliver Fall Prevention solutions with Qualaris.
Various design explorations were used to test and validate stakeholder needs in our design workshops. The Fall Board was a digital incentive for employees to provide feedback on falls, be mindful of data, and recent activity.
When the final prototype was created, hospitals asked for an iPad app to track fall preventions statistics and monitor problem areas in the hospital.
The app was created with an administrator-facing side, and a nurse-facing side. This experience highlights key information such as fall risks, current room number, and a simple survey checklist.
Preventing Hospital Falls
See the full thesis document here.
A hospital fall can be a tragic event for both the patient and hospital staff. This design thesis aims to discover technology solutions that will aid communication about fall risks and prevention tools in the hospital. The intent of this research is to gain insights about the exact needs of all stakeholders in a healthcare setting and to iteratively design with their feedback. The overarching goal of this project is to design a solution to aid a variety of healthcare providers in delivering more patient-centered services and to communicate more effectively with one another about hospital falls. More communication and transparency about hospital falls should decrease fall rates and thus save patients the painful and traumatic experience of falling in the hospital.