Background

Hospitalized elderly patients are sensitive to external stress factors such as lights and consistent noises that disturbs sleep cycles, leaving them to be agitated, confused, and eventually delirious. This sound and light detecting device attached near the bedside will be integrated in a system for nurses to help reduce external stress factors and encourages healthy sleep cycle for speedy emotional and physical recovery at the hospital.

My approach

To prevent this problem from repeating, the solution would have to target both elderly patients and the hospital staff. From this, we developed a product attached to the bedside that would help reorient patients. For the nursing staff to detect early stages of preventable delirium, we also developed a digital UI platform for Epic(main digital application used across hospitals) that is connected with the device to gather patient data for quick diagnosis of disturbing factors that is preventing sleep cycles.