Dubai: As part of Dubai Health Authority’s ‘Smart hospital’ initiative, it has announced the deployment of touch screens next to all bedside units at DHA hospitals. Patients can use the smart screen to control lights, order meals, switch on entertainment channels and get hospital information
Launching the touch screens at DHA’s stand at Gitex, Eisa Al Maidour, Director General of DHA, said: “Hospital stays can sometimes be unpleasant for patients of all ages. Through the use of technology we wanted to create a recreational as well as educational environment for patients and therefore we adopted the use of touch-screen bedside units that are easy to use for patients and have a gamut of features from video and TV use to meal ordering and hospital information services.”
Al Maidour said setting up a touch-screen Bed and Patient Entertainment system (terminal with arm and touch screen) has several features and, once implemented, patients will be able to watch TV, videos, and have access to internet. They will be able to video chat, play games, and opt for videos and movies on demand. The touch screen will also be able to control the room lights, and patients can order a meal, request laundry service, view hospital information, patient educational content, etc.
In the first phase, the screens will be implemented for all 200 beds of the Al Jalila Children’s Speciality Hospital.
