The Data Acquisition Platform (DAP) is an application that pulls the data from the various patient medical record systems within a hospital and places the information in a single repository in real-time, improving accessibility of data and reducing the administrative duties of clinicians and hospital staff.
Business: The idea for the Data Acquisition Platform (DAP) emerged in early 2007 as the result of a university project, and developed into MHN's first product design. With the financial assistance of a grant called the SMART award, MHN was able to show proof of concept for the design by 2008 and attract further investment.
Initially, the idea was to produce an end to end product. However, it was quickly found that most organisations prefer to keep their own interfaces. This led to a discovery of a niche for a product that could fit in seamlessly with the already existing information infrastructure of hospitals and clinics through providing back end connectivity.
Currently, MHN is waiting for a trial of the DAP in a hospital to ascertain the usefulness of the product. MHN has been in contact with a number of patient record providers with trial sites in hospitals and is currently awaiting a trial date. In the meantime, the team regularly reviews and revises the DAP to keep up to date with improvements in mobile wireless networks.
Technology: The Data Acquisition Platform (DAP) is an application agnostic platform for high reliability scalable data acquisition intended for the capture of patient data from currently deployed medical devices and delivery of that data in real time to patient information databases.
Business: The idea for the Data Acquisition Platform (DAP) emerged in early 2007 as the result of a university project, and developed into MHN's first product design. With the financial assistance of a grant called the SMART award, MHN was able to show proof of concept for the design by 2008 and attract further investment.
Initially, the idea was to produce an end to end product. However, it was quickly found that most organisations prefer to keep their own interfaces. This led to a discovery of a niche for a product that could fit in seamlessly with the already existing information infrastructure of hospitals and clinics through providing back end connectivity.
Currently, MHN is waiting for a trial of the DAP in a hospital to ascertain the usefulness of the product. MHN has been in contact with a number of patient record providers with trial sites in hospitals and is currently awaiting a trial date. In the meantime, the team regularly reviews and revises the DAP to keep up to date with improvements in mobile wireless networks.
Technology: The Data Acquisition Platform (DAP) is an application agnostic platform for high reliability scalable data acquisition intended for the capture of patient data from currently deployed medical devices and delivery of that data in real time to patient information databases.
