Inpatient falls are dangerous for patients and cause significant distress to healthcare workers responsible for preventing them. Current technology/software and devices being used by wards to help prevent inpatient falls are not fit for purpose. There is nothing commercially available to purchase that meets the needs of healthcare workers who wish to monitor falls.
Rebecca and her team are developing an approach to reduce falls in the hospital using a minimally distributive combination of existing video monitoring options and clinical evidence gathering.
