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Today’s @NHSHackDay was our ecosystem at its best: clinicians, entrepreneurs, carers, patients, and developers all setting themselves a user need and building a prototype to fix it.
And it was a great honour (and great fun) to judge with @wendyclar and @GillianLeng.
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And it was a great honour (and great fun) to judge with @wendyclar and @GillianLeng.
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1st prize: Porteroo
Rather than porters rushing round to get/deliver routine collections of blood & specimens, this team created a sign for each collection pt, with a “if urgent, scan this QR-code” to send the specific specimen into the urgent queue.
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Rather than porters rushing round to get/deliver routine collections of blood & specimens, this team created a sign for each collection pt, with a “if urgent, scan this QR-code” to send the specific specimen into the urgent queue.
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They built the back-end on a vehicle-delivery-problem algorithm, to create efficient routes & direct the most appropriate porter to collect an urgent specimen—and an app to show each porter where they were needed next.
Elegant work w clear user need + clinical benefit
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Elegant work w clear user need + clinical benefit
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