27 MAY 2020 | ISSUE 450 | FREE
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AUSTRALIA’S FIRST
TOUCHLESS TRIAGE KIOSK SCREENING TRIAL FOR COVID-19 UNDERWAY AT NAGAMBIE HEALTHCARE Melbourne based technology solution provider Elenium Automation has implemented a multi-functional health screening device for COVID-19 and other potential illnesses with Nagambie HealthCare. The world-first touchless triage kiosk, developed in Tullamarine, Victoria in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enables Nagambie HealthCare employees, visitors and contractors to quickly and effortlessly self-assess their vital health signs, including temperature, respiratory and heart rates at a safe distance before permitted entry. During the Trial, if a health sign concern is detected the kiosk will immediately link the user via a video call to a Triage Nurse for further assessment. This eliminates contact between staff and visitors during the process and will see the user in this incidence avoid entry into the Nagambie
HealthCare precinct. Nagambie HealthCare is a community owned health service which jointly operates a hospital, aged care and medical centre in Nagambie. Speaking at the technology’s launch, Nagambie HealthCare CEO and Director of Nursing Ms Bronwyn Beadle said Nagambie was a perfect place for the Trial. “As a rural health and aged care facility we have ensured a focus on maintaining restricted visits as opposed to ‘lockdown’ which has created significant resource challenges in screening all those who access our services. To enable this restriction, we have created a single user entry and exit for care recipients, employees and visitors with sizable movements through our doors each day,” Ms Beadle said. “The technology in the kiosk will markedly reduce the resources required to undertake screening and will enable us to trial the
assessment and triaging of people entering our facility during its round-the- clock operation. It is such an innovative and exciting opportunity for us as a rural health service, with an enormous potential public health benefit and added peace of mind for our employees, in-patients and more importantly our residents.” Elenium Automation CEO Aaron Hornlimann said the location of the kiosk within Nagambie HealthCare was an excellent destination to effectively monitor the intersection of public health provision, patient supervision and triaging staff and visitors with the technology to maintain a COVID-19 free environment. Mr Hornlimann said the solution would lay the basis for hospital and aged care facilities to explore future take-up of the low-cost, efficient and self-managed technology. “We will recover from COVID-19, but circumstances will not remain the same and increased attention to effective and efficient health screening will be
increasingly sought after. The kiosk’s touchless detection screening technology is adaptable, well suited to the times and applicable to different controlled access settings in addition to medical and aviation environments,” Mr Hornlimann said Elenium’s patent pending technology has been developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services and is part of a broader solution the Melbourne-based technology provider has developed in response to the COVID-19 virus. Technology used in the Nagambie HealthCare trial includes: t 5PVDIMFTT DPOUSPM PG B EFWJDF VTJOH WPJDF recognition t 5PVDIMFTT DPOUSPM PG B EFWJDF VTJOH IFBE movement control t 5PVDIMFTT WJUBM TJHO EFUFDUJPO JODMVEJOH temperature, respiratory and heart rates t 7JEFP MJOLJOH UIF LJPTL VTFS UP UIF Nagambie HealthCare on-duty triage nurse.