Medical System Improvement – Visualization Tool 

 Challenge : 

 During to the COVID - 19 pandemic and my family ’s health at stake , I regularly visited a nearby hospital   for a week . Therein , where I first perceived this challenge of drips being given to patients . Now , that   drip can be used to either give liquid food supply to the patient or medicine injected into it . 

 But , the problem was the pandemic had put an immense pressure on the hospital ’s resources and   there was a huge staff crunch . Staff to Patient ratio was almost 1:13 ! ! This led to a lot of errors in   giving timely drip to the patient since the Intravenous Injection System requires manual effort &   regular checking . Also , if not monitored properly & the drip is for a longer duration inside the patient ,   it could lead to complexities caused by the backflow of blood 

 Therefore , I thought otherwise of why not try to automate this entire process ! 

 Selection : 

 Since , I was in college and had a technological background , I started to visualize of all the possibilities .   Hence , the tool of Visualization was used before identifying and defining the possible solutions to the   challenge . The visualisation too is simply to understand the scope , boundaries , and limitations of this   manual IV process and helped me to better understand the pain points and opportunities for   improvements or solutions . I often used this while solving any assignment questions as well in college   and with my peers if they seek any advice . 

 Application : 

 I started by simply utilizing my time at the hospital on observing the challenges and jotting them   visually on a paper ( straw man graphic type ) . Then I drew the linkages in between the relationships .   To develop the straw man graphic , I drew from the existing resources available and understood the   surrounding of a hospital ( intense work pressure & matter of life and death ) . 

 •   I trickled the main areas of concerns like : 

 •   Rising COVID Cases 

 •   Overstressed Ground Nurses 

 •   Limited Resources & Staff 

 •   Unprepared Health Infrastructure 

 •   COVID Norms ( Social Distancing ) 

 After my family fully recovered , I went back regularly to check & observe . I even tried to interview few   helpers / staff as my main points of contact on the initiative . Since I had decent knowledge on mobile   app creation and development , due to my educational background , I tried to formulate a code for   automating the entire process depicted as below – 

 There will be an automatic alarm whenever the patient needed the dripping system which will be   routed onto the staff through their pager or a wrist band watch and signal them to attend the patient .   Thus , forming an effective reactive system . Though I could apply the app system on one person basis   through a mobile phone , but due to the lack of many such smart devices , I could n’t completely   implement my idea . 

 Insight : 

 I truly enjoyed visualising this entire challenge and learnt that design thinking approach is highly   effective . It helped me to break down the problem into smaller sub parts so that I can effectively tackle   each part & not get worried due to the enormity of the challenge . Also , one of the insight was that the   management at the hospital were itself trying their best to tackle the sudden rise of cases and thus   were focussing on automating many domains . Moreover , a beautiful insight was drawn from one of   the nurses who was involved in the process was that , though how much so ever automation is brought   in , but we as humans always try to take care of the patient through that humanly gesture & personal   interaction , they get better that way more ! 

 Approach : 

 Definitely each problem has many ways to solve it , so not that time when I was at the hospital , but   later on I pondered over the many alternative solutions which were possible and as follows : 

 •   Monitoring by specially hired caretakers 

 •   Frequent Visits by family members themselves to keep a check on the patient 

 •   Self - monitoring if possible and not that serious 

 •   Entirely Smart Alert Monitoring system integrated with the hospital ’s main system 

 Many of the times , I prefer using this visualization tool since it has given me one of the best results till 

 now ! 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Medical System Improvement – Visualization Tool 

 Challenge : 

 During to the COVID - 19 pandemic and my family ’s health at stake , I regularly visited a nearby hospital   for a week . Therein , where I first perceived this challenge of drips being given to patients . Now , that   drip can be used to either give liquid food supply to the patient or medicine injected into it . 

 But , the problem was the pandemic had put an immense pressure on the hospital ’s resources and   there was a huge staff crunch . Staff to Patient ratio was almost 1:13 ! ! This led to a lot of errors in   giving timely drip to the patient since the Intravenous Injection System requires manual effort &   regular checking . Also , if not monitored properly & the drip is for a longer duration inside the patient ,   it could lead to complexities caused by the backflow of blood 

 Therefore , I thought otherwise of why not try to automate this entire process ! 

 Selection : 

 Since , I was in college and had a technological background , I started to visualize of all the possibilities .   Hence , the tool of Visualization was used before identifying and defining the possible solutions to the   challenge . The visualisation too is simply to understand the scope , boundaries , and limitations of this   manual IV process and helped me to better understand the pain points and opportunities for   improvements or solutions . I often used this while solving any assignment questions as well in college   and with my peers if they seek any advice . 

 Application : 

 I started by simply utilizing my time at the hospital on observing the challenges and jotting them   visually on a paper ( straw man graphic type ) . Then I drew the linkages in between the relationships .   To develop the straw man graphic , I drew from the existing resources available and understood the   surrounding of a hospital ( intense work pressure & matter of life and death ) . 

 •   I trickled the main areas of concerns like : 

 •   Rising COVID Cases 

 •   Overstressed Ground Nurses 

 •   Limited Resources & Staff 

 •   Unprepared Health Infrastructure 

 •   COVID Norms ( Social Distancing ) 

 After my family fully recovered , I went back regularly to check & observe . I even tried to interview few   helpers / staff as my main points of contact on the initiative . Since I had decent knowledge on mobile   app creation and development , due to my educational background , I tried to formulate a code for   automating the entire process depicted as below – 

 There will be an automatic alarm whenever the patient needed the dripping system which will be   routed onto the staff through their pager or a wrist band watch and signal them to attend the patient .   Thus , forming an effective reactive system . Though I could apply the app system on one person basis   through a mobile phone , but due to the lack of many such smart devices , I could n’t completely   implement my idea . 

 Insight : 

 I truly enjoyed visualising this entire challenge and learnt that design thinking approach is highly   effective . It helped me to break down the problem into smaller sub parts so that I can effectively tackle   each part & not get worried due to the enormity of the challenge . Also , one of the insight was that the   management at the hospital were itself trying their best to tackle the sudden rise of cases and thus   were focussing on automating many domains . Moreover , a beautiful insight was drawn from one of   the nurses who was involved in the process was that , though how much so ever automation is brought   in , but we as humans always try to take care of the patient through that humanly gesture & personal   interaction , they get better that way more ! 

 Approach : 

 Definitely each problem has many ways to solve it , so not that time when I was at the hospital , but   later on I pondered over the many alternative solutions which were possible and as follows : 

 •   Monitoring by specially hired caretakers 

 •   Frequent Visits by family members themselves to keep a check on the patient 

 •   Self - monitoring if possible and not that serious 

 •   Entirely Smart Alert Monitoring system integrated with the hospital ’s main system 

 Many of the times , I prefer using this visualization tool since it has given me one of the best results till 

 now !
### Output: 