Monidor’s inno­v­a­tive test­ing at the Oamk Sim­Lab: enhanc­ing health­care

In the dynam­ic field of health­care tech­nol­o­gy, prod­uct test­ing is a cru­cial step in the devel­op­ment process. Monidor, a healthtech com­pa­ny based in Oulu, has uti­lized the facil­i­ties at the Oamk Sim­Lab to test their solu­tion for remote mon­i­tor­ing of vital para­me­ters. This soft­ware is designed to stream­line nurs­es’ work­flows and enhance patient safe­ty by pro­vid­ing a user-friend­ly tech­nol­o­gy solu­tion.

What is the Oamk Sim­Lab?

The Oamk Sim­Lab is a part of OuluHealth Labs, a cut­ting-edge envi­ron­ment for research, inno­va­tion, and co-cre­ation. It offers a range of sim­u­lat­ed ser­vice envi­ron­ments where health tech­nol­o­gy and wel­fare ser­vices can be devel­oped and test­ed. The lab pro­vides a safe space for solu­tion test­ing and val­i­da­tion before cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, with­out the need for eth­i­cal require­ments.

The pur­pose of the lab 

The pur­pose of the Oamk Sim­Lab is to sup­port com­pa­nies and stake­hold­ers through­out the inno­va­tion process. It boasts ver­sa­tile sim­u­la­tion stu­dios and lab envi­ron­ments tai­lored for health and wel­fare pro­fes­sion­als.  This allows for com­pre­hen­sive test­ing and devel­op­ment of prod­ucts and ser­vices, with the added ben­e­fit of stu­dent and teacher feed­back.

Monidor’s goals at the Sim­Lab 

Monidor aims to lever­age Oamk SimLab’s resources to achieve their goal of cre­at­ing tech­nol­o­gy that eas­es the bur­den on nurs­ing staff and bol­sters patient safe­ty. By test­ing their remote mon­i­tor­ing soft­ware in a sim­u­lat­ed envi­ron­ment, Monidor can fine-tune their prod­uct to meet the real-world needs of health­care pro­fes­sion­als.

Monidor’s test­ing process involves sev­er­al phas­es, begin­ning with an intro­duc­tion to the sys­tem and a brief­ing. Stu­dents then engage with the devices; they use the device to set up the mon­i­tor­ing for patients and check the remote mon­i­tor­ing as they would do in a real hos­pi­tal ward envi­ron­ment.

Through the test­ing at the Oamk Sim­Lab, Monidor is con­tribut­ing to the advance­ment of health­care tech­nol­o­gy. The company’s com­mit­ment to improv­ing the tools avail­able to nurs­ing pro­fes­sion­als is a tes­ta­ment to the impor­tance of prac­ti­cal, hands-on test­ing in real-world sim­u­lat­ed envi­ron­ments.

The ser­vice was enabled by Health­Hub Fin­land EDIH (https://healthhubfinland.eu/), which is co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Commission’s Dig­i­tal Europe Pro­gramme and Busi­ness Fin­land.

Text: Rabia Abid, Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Trainee, Busi­nes­sOulu