Nurses deserve better - Automating Routine Processes in Intensive Care
Caring for critically ill patients requires maximum precision and efficiency. Yet, urine output monitoring is still performed manually, leading to high error rates and an increased administrative burden for healthcare staff. We will present how this process can be automated to provide real-time, accurate data. What challenges arise when implementing an innovative solution in a traditionally conservative healthcare environment? And how can digitalization contribute to more efficient hospital operations? Tobiáš Vybíral, co-founder of HTG Medical, will share insights from development, testing, and international collaboration.
Behind the humorous plea “remember me when you go pee” lies a serious problem: nurses spend hours manually collecting data that are essential for treatment, yet also exhaust them. The HTG Medical team has therefore created a small device for automatic measurement of urine output in intensive care units to make nurses’ work easier and the data more accurate. After pilot deployments, they are now looking for hospitals across Europe to help fine-tune the solution before certification. From a young age, Lucka wanted to help, and after demanding studies she became a nurse, but after a few years she felt burned out. The requirements for collecting medical data kept growing, but the tools that would make her work easier were not arriving. In the ICU she had to check the urine bag every hour, bend down, read the value, and write it down on paper—day and night, with the risk of errors. According to the team, such a routine on average amounts to roughly two and a half full-time nurse positions in each of the approximately 1,800 EU hospitals, even though their time could be used more meaningfully.When data wears you down: Lucka’s story
