SACaDOCO - Solution innovante de télémédecine portable
Business, Management and Services Engineering and Architecture
Currently, half of all ambulance calls are for relative emergencies, requiring significant resources. To optimize this care, authorities are testing community paramedics who travel alone with limited equipment, but this solution has limitations when medical expertise is required.
In this context, a secure telemedicine solution, enabling the paramedic and the doctor on call to collaborate remotely, could address the limitations of the system currently being tested. The solution could take the form of a backpack, easily transportable by a paramedic, containing the medical devices needed by the paramedic, interconnected with the software used by the professionals involved.
The main objective of this project is to explore, on the one hand, the technological feasibility of this connected backpack and, on the other hand, the suitability of this solution as perceived by the professionals directly involved: paramedics and on-call doctors.
From a technological standpoint, the project will involve designing and prototyping a secure telemedicine system that is compatible with existing infrastructure, and then testing it in a simulated environment to produce a proof of concept. At the same time, the project will seek to identify and document the expected organizational impacts from the perspective of future users. The analysis will focus in particular on the care process, but also on the skills and abilities of stakeholders to work alone and together.
Conducted in collaboration with stakeholders in the field (ambulance services and emergency care training providers), SACaDOCO will offer an innovative solution for optimizing emergency resources.
This project was funded as part of the call for projects “Business Transformation”, launched jointly by the Business Management and Services and Engineering and Architecture faculties of the HES-SO.