The hospital admission experience is changing thanks to the incorporation of new technologies. With the emergence of the hospital smart room concept, the digitalization of smart hospitals has taken a further step toward improving both the patient experience and the daily work of healthcare professionals.
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What is a smart room?
These smart rooms are designed to integrate advanced digital systems that optimize healthcare delivery, accelerate patient recovery, facilitate vital sign monitoring, and promote smooth communication between medical staff, patients, and their families.
The installation of smart rooms in hospitals represents a complete shift in the concept of hospital admission: the room becomes a digitally connected environment that combines comfort, safety, and efficiency to revolutionize medical care and recovery assistance.
How is medical care in hospitals optimized through smart rooms?
The integration of the smart room system in a hospital or smart healthcare center connects each room with the rest of the building and with the medical team, both locally and remotely, enabling connections with specialists located in other hospitals. This represents a revolution in how medical care is delivered and how healthcare professionals communicate and collaborate with one another.
The communication system ensures that medical and nursing staff remain in constant contact with the patient, whether through voice or video calls—even from remote locations outside the hospital. This enables remote consultations and the ability to share test results, medical reports, or discharge notes directly from and to the room.
The main advantage is that this eliminates unnecessary waiting times during medical visits and improves nursing response capacity by providing full access to each patient’s digital medical documentation. As this information is digitized, searching and reviewing specific data in medical records becomes almost instantaneous.
Thanks to these systems, a smart room integrated into an intelligent hospital enables continuous monitoring of patients’ vital signs, reducing the possibility of human error and offering real-time alerts in case of any anomaly.
Remote access to real-time information —even from devices in other rooms, the nursing control station, or healthcare professionals’ own tablets— also contributes to more personalized and effective care.
Advantages of being admitted to a smart room for patients
The implementation of smart rooms provides significant benefits for patients admitted to an intelligent hospital:
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Safety: Continuous monitoring allows the smart room system to detect changes in vital signs, identify falls, and recognize patterns that may put the patient at risk.
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Information: Patients can access their medical data, test schedules, results, and specific recovery recommendations. This encourages greater autonomy and understanding of their health status, enabling them to take an active role in their treatment.
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Entertainment: A more pleasant environment improves the hospital experience and speeds up recovery. Thanks to the smart room, patients can enjoy access to streaming platforms, social networks, and communication services, making their hospital stay more enjoyable and enabling virtual contact with family members—even when they are far from the healthcare facility.
These advantages impact not only patient comfort but also their emotional well-being and the success of treatments.
Key technologies of a hospital smart room
The systems designed for smart rooms, such as those developed by Advantecnia, stand out for integrating next-generation technologies at strategic points in the room, enabling full digitalization of the patient and their recovery process. Among these key technologies are:
Sensors
The smart room of an intelligent hospital includes two types of sensors:
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Environmental sensors: control temperature, humidity, CO₂ levels, and noise, among other factors.
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Vital-sign monitoring sensors: track various vital parameters such as temperature, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and more, depending on the patient’s needs.
Radars
Equipped with artificial intelligence, these radars detect bed exits and analyze the patient’s movements without direct contact. This ensures precise monitoring of their condition, even during sleep.
Communication systems
The patient–nurse communication system guarantees immediate and effective communication between the patient and medical staff, reducing waiting times when attending to any need or emergency.
Multifunctional Carepad
This is a mobile device similar to a tablet, compatible with iOS and Android, featuring a wide range of integrated functionalities that make it an essential tool for modern hospital management:
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Provides access to entertainment apps, online TV, and informational tools specific to the patient’s medical history and health data.
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Enables audio and video calls with nurses, doctors, and family members.
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Provides restricted access for medical staff to manage alarms, tasks, and communication with other rooms.
360º Camera
The 360º camera is another key component, as it provides complete visual control of the room, ensuring that medical staff can observe any relevant detail of the patient’s condition without needing to be physically present. This improves their ability to respond to any emergency.
The implementation of the smart room system in hospitals not only modernizes facilities but also exponentially enhances the experience of patients, doctors, and family members. If you are in charge of managing healthcare communication systems and are ready to transform your hospital into a benchmark of innovation and quality, contact Advantecnia. We will provide you with more details about how smart rooms are becoming the essential bridge between the present and the future of healthcare.
