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Evaluation of Smart Phones for Remote Control of a Standard Hospital Room

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The standard hospital room interface for control of communication and entertainment devices assumes a patient has the ability to hold and press mechanical switches. If the patient does not have these abilities, then the patient must wait for a nurse to walk by the room to ask for help. Mobile devices using the Android and iOS operating systems are compared to accommodate the limitations of a patient for communication and control of the hospital room environment. In order to design an appropriate system, analysis of currently available off-the-shelf technology is performed to find the appropriate configuration that is compatible with the hospital room environment and covers a clear patient need. Evaluation of components for a fully integrated system is shown. Strengths and weaknesses of each technology are discussed. Progress toward an integrated solution on a tablet is provided in the conclusion.

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Acknowledgments

This paper would not be possible without the support of the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health through the Division of Physics supervised by Victor Krauthamer. Support was also provided by Karen Siegel and James Coburn from the Functional Performance and Device Use laboratory at the FDA. Additionally, review of this work was provided by Prof. Frank Barnes at the University of Colorado Boulder. Support for this effort was provided through an ORISE Fellowship for Kimberly Newman. This work was supported in part by the Food and Drug Administration through the Center for Devices and Radiological Health in the Office of Scientific and Engineering Laboratories as part of the Division of Physics in the Functional Performance and Device Use Laboratory.

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  1. Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Kimberly E. Newman

  2. Denver Health Hospital, 777 Bannock Street, Denver, CO, USA

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Newman, K.E., Blei, M. Evaluation of Smart Phones for Remote Control of a Standard Hospital Room. Wireless Pers Commun 75, 1005–1013 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1404-5

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