You have two days to submit your idea to the GE’s hospital quest competition, but two companies have already picked up $5,000.
Each milestone winner has built an app to make the hospital experience less of a hassle.
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The Discharge Roadmap app incorporates patient and caregiver needs and preferences in the discharge discussion. The idea is to improve communication between the hospital care team and community-based care providers as well.
Request-a-Porter app allows hospital staff to manage transport requests through text messages. Frontline medical staff and porters communicate through text messages and the location of individual porters are tracked. The system can work through a public cell system or a private-messaging platform.
GE will announce eight Grand Prizes and one Lean Startup winner in March. The winners will share $100,000 in cash from GE.
Check out the 134 entries here. These ideas focus on efficient patient discharge, digital hospital assistant applications and smart care scheduling tools.
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Read more about the competition at GE Reports.
