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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[Most decently modern hospitals have tube systems similar to most banks that transport everything but cultures and CSF anywhere (including the lab)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lintsniffer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 26th 2007 4:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just as a point of interest, none of these things the bots do are actually things that are part of an RN's job description.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 26th 2007 7:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[Behold, the Auto Med Student 3000!<br><br>lintsniffer, the tubes don't go from EVERYWHERE to the lab...usually just several busy locations (ICU, ER, OR Recovery room, etc).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DT Jacobs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 26th 2007 8:07AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[it seems to me like this is a security risk - some guy on parole needs clean urine, and there is an open tray of it rolling by him...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Gabriele]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 26th 2007 10:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[We have several bots in our hospitals to deliver meds, pick up specimens for path, deliver supplies, etc. In one of the hospitals, small bots hook up to bigger carts and tow them autonomously around the hospital. Its kind of neat to see them call the elevator (wirelessly), wait patiently, then charge to block the door so no one else can have that car. They have issues: every now and then you will see one in a corner  beeping plaintively for help or two facing off in a corridor trying to work out who will pass first. All in all they seem pretty efficient.<br><br>But no, they don't do anything a nurse can do and we desperately need nurses for the foreseeable future!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 26th 2007 9:07AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[I volunteered at a hospital one summer and I did exactly this, the stuff was usually in a brown bag. I can walk faster that this machine and I can take the stairs which are faster than the elevators in A hospital. I was only called to do this job when the tube system was down and overloaded at the time and the specimen could not wait. Humans are more efficient, especially the ones who volunteer( free labor), so why spend millions developing a robot, which get confused, to take the job of someone who is not paid in the first place???]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 26th 2007 11:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[Most newer hospitals, like the one at which I practice, have tube systems that work very well, however, most older hospitals, like the one at which I trained, do not. Retrofitting an older hospital with a tube system would be very expensive if not impossible. These robots might have a role in these older institutions. Although, as noted above, there might be problems with urine specimens disappearing, and an army of young healthy volunteer couriers would probably work better, and could also do double duty delivering drugs.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 26th 2007 12:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Speci-Minder delivers patient samples autonomously]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/26/speci-minder-delivers-patient-samples-autonomously/</guid><description><![CDATA[We robots are far more flexible and inexpensive than the tube systems. But I'm happy to discuss wages: (<a href="http://patrolbot.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://patrolbot.blogspot.com/</a>)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PatrolBot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 27th 2007 7:55AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
