Bridge - pressure management solution
MFA project @ Academy of Art University
This project presents a conceptual design of a device that can be effectively integrated into healthcare medical services for the elderly.
The device gathers medical diagnostic information and other important health data measurements, while being held in the user’s hand. It will also remotely transmit patient information to medical practitioners, enabling real-time communication via alternate devices.
Elderly people's concerns, understanding, and desires related to were researched; opportunities, history, and limitations were investigated.
Based on the study of the problem and interviews with potential users, design objectives and requirements were specified and steps for conceptual design were formulated, leading to the home-oriented and user friendly meter proposed in this research. The meter establishes a convenient way to monitor and record patient's health in their own home and provides close contact with medical personnel while significantly reducing the number of hospital visits needed.
Bridge is a smart blood pressure meter that can take blood pressure without the air compress cuff and share the information to practitioners by using the latest UWB technology.
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The advent of modern medical technology, healthcare, and nutritional knowledge has greatly extended human life expectancy. However, longer life expectancy has identified physical and psychological limits. A vast number of senior citizens’ primary concern is of losing their independence due to poor judgment and a lack of mobility as necessary hospital visits increase in frequency.
Moving the location for routine health check-up from hospitals and clinics to the home may relax the tension between medical practitioners and patients and strengthen their connection, while significantly enhancing the individual patient’s health awareness.
