The solution

An integrated solution made of a computerized clinical decision support system and a service robot that serves as a tool to intuitively collect and display health/clinical data, to support nurses by taking over activities that represent no added value to nursing (e.g. administrative work, routine work) and to entertain, inform and motivate patients.

The system enables not just telemonitoring but also to work with qualitative reports and self-reports from patients regarding pain, issues, psychological wellbeing. The robot can also be integrated into general administrative data collection and digitalization processes before admission or by the time the patient is admitted. The robot provides support also during grand-round routines by displaying relevant data and helps during the distribution of medicines by identifying alternatives in case the prescribed ones should not be available. Basically, the robot collects whatever needs to be done with the patient and avoid that their input is retrieved manually either by nurses or doctors themselves. The humanoid factors facilitate more natural, trustworthy, and engaging interaction while a computer vision, language, and acoustic processing helps to understand and motivate patients to exercise or move. Thanks to integrated blockchain technology, the accountability of the robot is guaranteed as well. This makes it possible to know what the robot is doing at any given time, where it is, and weather the robot is the cause of eventual mistakes.