Hospital ward nurses’ everyday tasks, such as filling trays and dispensation of medicines to the patients, are stressful and meticulous. Errors at various steps of filling and dispensing medicines could lead to life-critical threats. These errors need to be identified and analysed so that they can be reduced and prevented to create a safer hospital ward. We propose a medication tracking application named Smart Dosing, and a tray design to support the tablet device running the application. The application is intended to integrate different information systems into a single application, as well as assist in medicine tray management. Keeping the sensitivity and criticality of information being carried by the tablet application in mind, a list of impending security threats was provided.

1. SmartDosing
Medicine tray design and security for medication
administration processes at hospital wards
R. Pradhan, Natalia Díaz Rodríguez, R. Danielsson-Ojala, H. Pirinen, L. Hamari, I.
Tuominen, S. Salanterä, A. Soini and J. Lilius. Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, and
University of Turku, Finland.
Tangibles4Health CHI Workshop. May 8th
2016, San Jose, California, US

2. Current medication process in
hospitals

3. SmartDosing: Digitalizing the
workflow -version1

4. SmartDosing version 2
 Integrate a tablet device into the medicine
dispensation tray
 SmartDosing App guides in:
 Filling the medicine tray
 Dispensing the medicines while reducing risk of errors
 Providing access to information about
 Patient medication treatment, dosage and schedule
 Equivalent medicines & lack of stock
 Real-time updates
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5. Design: Tray augmentation
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6. Patient & Medication Details

7. 3-D printed cup-holders for
medicine cups
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8. Status
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Vaadin Java platform GUI mockup
Security requirement analysis (from
usability and security perspective)
Next:
Tray manufacturing
App Development (& integration:
Pharmaca Fennica, hospital IS).
Usability evaluation in real environment

9. Call for Collaboration
Masters, PhD and interested collaborators, pleaseMasters, PhD and interested collaborators, please
contact me:contact me:
Natalia Díaz RodríguezNatalia Díaz Rodríguez
ndiaz@decsai.ugr.esndiaz@decsai.ugr.es
http://about.me/NataliaDiazRodriguezhttp://about.me/NataliaDiazRodriguez
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10. Provocation
A universalA universal SmartDosingSmartDosing acrossacross
countries? (How do others do it?)countries? (How do others do it?)
Anticipating errorsAnticipating errors
Augmented Reality?Augmented Reality?
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