BabyView: Real Time Monitor of Infant Patients Erin Lynne Scott Dr. Bill Walsh

What is the problem? Parents and Families of babies in the Vanderbilt NICU are often 100+ miles away from child

Background Provide Digital Images of newborn Often part of a prenatal information website at hospital Used in both NICU and regular nursery Web Babies

Customer Requirements No Interference w/ Other Equipment Minimum Development and Deployment Costs & Schedule Easy to use Limited Maintenance Cost & Effort Secure Connections Meets HIPAA Regulations

Suggested Solutions Live Image Feed of Child fed to –Nurses Station –Doctor’s Offices Requiring Secure ID for each doctor –Home Computers Requiring Secure ID for each patient –Mother’s Room in Hospital Via portable computer w/ wireless access

Hospital A Camera Hospital Server Baby Info Internet Family Home Mother’s Hospital Room Nursery Hospital B Baby Info Mother’s Hospital Room

Baby Info Logon Screen Admin Page Parent/Family Hospital Staff Administrator Website Structure

Logon Screen HTML PAGE JAVA Applet Database Runs the Applet on Server Accesses

Work to Date Camera Arrived and “Setup”“Setup” Final Story board Created Websites Being Developed JAVA Program almost finished

Road Blocks Wireless Camera Technology Children’s Hospital Opening Patient Thinking

Future Work Finish Program Debug Program Finish Website to host Program Upload both Program Testing Decide on prototype

Acknowledgements Dr. Walsh –Professor of Pediatrics Attending Neonatologist, Chief of Nurseries Dr. King –Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ray Erlandson –Department of Biomedical Engineering Dr. Dan Lindstrom

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