QUMEA wins largest European tender for digital mobility monitoring to date
Sweden’s Västra Götaland Region (VGR) will be relying on the Swiss company’s AI-supported technology over the next eight years to improve patient safety in its hospitals.
VGR operates over a dozen hospitals, including Sahlgrenska University Hospital, one of the largest in Europe. Up to 2,400 hospital beds are equipped with the QUMEA system, which records movements anonymously using radar – without cameras or microphones. This means that privacy and data protection are fully protected.
By opting for QUMEA, the region is setting a new standard in the healthcare sector: The technology helps to prevent falls and bedsores, supports care staff and increases patient safety. It also fulfils the highest data protection requirements. VGR deliberately chose a data-saving solution that does not require any personal or visual information. This tender shows how important data protection and innovative technologies are for the future of patient care.
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Falls in hospitals rarely happen without warning. The changes that precede them, in mobility, in restlessness, in how a patient moves through the night, often go unnoticed between routine checks. This is the gap the Västra Götaland Region (VGR) set out to close when it began one of the largest publicly tendered movement monitoring projects in Europe.
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