Modelo de negócios de uma solução de monitoramento inteligente e controle do reposicionamento dos pacientes acamados para prevenção de lesão por pressão

Abstract

The wounds known as bedsores, ulcers or pressure injury are serious and common, either in the hospital environment and at home. These wounds demand an expensive treatment and in worst cases can lead to death. The most effective prevention method is to prevent patients from staying in the same position for a long time. The hospitals have protocols to move their patients each every two or three hours, but in practice, those protocols do not work properly. The team is often overloaded and there is no repositioning controlling method. The purpose of this work is to present a business model of a smart system used to monitor the bedridden patients and to reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers. An Executive summary, the Canvas Business Model and the Canvas Value Proposal will be shown and discussed. In addition, a quick approach to an investment risk analysis will be made and, a Minimal Viable Product of the application that will make the collected information available will be presented. The offered solution is composed of a small sensor that is fixed to the patient’s chest. With this device, it is possible to identity all the patient’s position, send the information wirelessly to a central management and make the information available in a platform or another device. With the intelligent monitoring system, the healthcare professionals will be able to have greater control over wounds prevention, individualize the treatment of each patient and identity the human failures, reducing the rate of pressure injury.