Internet of Everything Case Study: Hamburg UKE Medical Center

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Creating a Better Quality of Life

The City of Hamburg links patients with their schools and friends to create a better quality of life with the Internet of Everything.

Challenge

  • Connect critically ill patients to their classrooms to keep them engaged
  • Provide opportunity for patients to interact with friends while in treatment
  • Enhance treatment of UKE patients by taking a more holistic approach

Solution

  • Create open and secure BYOD connection for patients
  • Make the system easy to use for both the patient and the school
  • Deploy dedicated robots with secure and stable network connections to classrooms

Outcome

  • Reduce the feelings of isolation experienced by the patients
  • Remove the fear and mystery for young people of what their friend is facing
  • Create engagements for patients and their families

We must not forget our true mission...This mission is to create quality of life.

- Prof. Dr. Christian Gerloff
Vice Medical Director, UKE Hamburg