Natalie Rabinovich

AugMed

The purpose of AugMed is to improve patient care. 2.3 medical errors occur for every 100 admissions into a hospital, costing the hospital an estimated $2 billion per year. AugMed aims to revolutionize patient care by reducing errors caused by equipment with incorrectly set controls (e.g. knobs, switches, buttons, etc). The augment reality implementation allows a user to see both the value of the setting that is expected and the actual value of the setting, thereby preventing medical errors and reducing inadvertent effects on the patient. AugMed associates a patient with the expected settings and actual settings on their designated equipment (e.g. infusion pumps, EKC, ECG) and provides the capability to virtually annotate the equipment with these values. Using the AugMed friendly interface, the user also has the ability to modify the expected and actual settings in the system. These AR benefits reduce malpractice costs on the user and reduce costs on the facility that implements the AugMed system.