August 2024:emineo designs the future of care robotics together with Bonn University Hospital
At Bonn University Hospital, emineo joined forces with the UKB as a customer, CONET and two Fraunhofer Institutes to implement a pioneering project in the healthcare sector.
The interdisciplinary team developed solutions for the future of care robotics.
The combination of an increasing number of patients with complex illnesses, demographic change and a shift in responsibilities is leading to challenges in the provision of nutrition to patients.
Service staff are increasingly being entrusted with the task of serving and clearing food instead of nursing staff.
This often results in an information gap between the service staff and nursing staff as to how much the individual patient has eaten.
Bonn University Hospital is looking for new ways to meet this challenge.
CONET was commissioned to bring together experts from the fields of robotics, IT and integration.
In collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation and CONET, emineo has spent the past few months working on innovative solutions in the field of care robotics.
These include new approaches to improve the supply of food and fluids to patients with the help of robots in the future.
In particular, there is great potential in the automated delivery of drinks and meals by robotics and the automatic recording of nutritional values and drinking quantities in order to avoid complications.
Specifically, the concept co-developed by emineo envisages the use of robots as an important element of patient screening.
This allows doctors and nursing staff to be alerted to any need for action based on the patient guidance system.
The concept shows how robotic solutions can support the process of serving and taking back meals on the ward and determine the nutritional balance.
The control and observation processes for recording the amount of food and drink can be recorded by technical, audiovisual and/or robotic systems and transferred to the patient management system via an interface.
This creates a more complete picture of the patient.
Picture credits: University Hospital Bonn (UKB) / J. Saba
Based on the data, calorie requirements and calorie intake as well as drinking requirements and fluid intake can be recorded in conjunction with the electronic patient file.
AI would therefore not only reduce the workload for healthcare professionals with the proposed solutions, but also create an additional data basis for treatment decisions.
Although it was an unusual sight The first trials are already showing that this vision is generally well received by patients.
The extent to which such innovative approaches are suitable for widespread use will be tested in the upcoming implementation phase on the basis of many small experiments on site.
The University Hospital Bonn provides the framework for these future-oriented projects with the Innovative Secure Medical Campus (ISMC) – a unique digitalization project in the DACH region, which is supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Through the consistent use of state-of-the-art technologies such as surgical robotics and AI, processes for the innovative, fully networked medical campus of the future are being tested here.
The KI.NRW flagship project aims to show new ways in which medicine can benefit from digitalization.
We are proud that emineo was able to contribute to this goal and look back fondly on the creative and collaborative concept development together with the customer, the Fraunhofer Institutes and CONET.
The interdisciplinary team works together on care robotics.
Karin Fischer
Head of Corporate Development
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