07.05.2018
Raised 4 Million USD in R& D Capital
Ably is revolutionizing the very core of patient recovery. In close cooperation with health professionals, we are redefining what a hospital bed can be, from the ground up.
The Bed
Inspired by the human spine, Ably proudly presents a bed that learns, knows, mobilizes and collaborates with you.
The Ably bed emerges from extensive research in cooperation with Norwegian hospitals and health institutions. We singled out the hospital bed as subject to most potential improvements. So we decided to design the next generation hospital bed, from ground up.
Our bed learns, knows, mobilizes and collaborates, inspired by the professional spirit found among the nursing and medical personnel themselves. The ability of the bed to assist patient movements is modelled from the human spine.
Machine Learning
Early Interventions
Safety and Empowerment
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Insight
The global challenges of static hospital beds
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Nurse Load
Today, nurses and medical care personnel report high levels of workload pressure, providing care to bedridden patients. Time pressure, need for constant patient monitoring, heavy manual labour, as well as cognitive strain in understanding and foreseeing patient health status, are common sources of unsustainable workloads. Observed adverse outcomes are prolonged patient recovery, increased turnover in medical personnel, increased frequency of injuries, and development of poor work environment.2
Patient Falls
Faced with the risk associated with falls, the need for patients to be mobilised and to move as part of treatment is a main challenge. Non-fatal and fatal fall injuries occur as patients moves in bed, or while exiting and entering beds. These are high incidence events in health and welfare services, with long-term effects that demand extensive additional treatment and rehabilitation. Prevention of falls requires close monitoring by medical and welfare personnel. Fall accidents represent a substantial cost, both in terms of patient health and demand for additional medical attention.3
Pressure Ulcers
Pressure ulcers are considered a key indicator of quality of care and patient safety in hospital and care institutions. The main cause of pressure ulcers is the lack of mobility to reposition and distribute pressure on the skin. Limited movement decreases blood flow and increases muscle atrophy. Reduced appetite diminish the ability to maintain skin hydration and nutrition. Pressure ulcers develop quickly and represent a common problem among long-term patients laying in bed. The condition is associated with extended medical attention and risk of severe complications, during treatment or recovery.Key Benefits
Designed for movement, prevention and predictive health treatment
Patient Mobility
Introducing ‘augmented mobility’, the Ably bed facilitates the imperative need for movement required by the human body. Our bed compensates for the reduced capacity of the patient to move. Significantly easing manual lifting and handling of patients, the bed efficiently prevents pressure ulcers and fall injuries.
Safety and Empowerment
We apply technology to decrease time consuming and harmful tasks. Providing a lean, active and intelligently designed hospital bed, we enable less complications during treatment, faster recovery and decreased number of musculoskeletal disorders among health workers.
Early Intervention
As the bed itself collects data continuously, it learns to know the patient through predictive analytics. Monitoring is automatic, consistent and coherent. Recognising patterns in pulse, movements, respiration, sounds and more, medical care personnel receive notifications in case of deviations or defined events.
Project Timeline
Steps closer to improved patient care
14.06.2017
Approved for CCABHI
We are approved for the CCABHI program! That means CCBHI is using 600.000CAD to pay four hospitals to validate that our innovation prevents fall. The funding is also matched by Innovation Norway to cover our costs in the program, thus setting up our office in Toronto. We have also just hired a fantastic person to move to Toronto, and she will be reviled in October.
01.01.2016
Public funding
Public-Sector R&D funding granted with a frame of 5MNOK, and three more partners got added to our project: Helse Møre og Romsdal, Herøy Municipality, and Sykehuset Innlandet HF. Through these partners we now receive input from every part of health services like orthopaedics, cancer, rehabilitation, medical, intensiv care, home care services, and nursing home. Mapping, workshops, and working in the departments is done to get a full overview over all the common pains.
02.06.2015
Workshop at Sunnaas Hospital
First workshop with Sunnaas Hospital. Total of 20 people from all departments was present, where we used cognitive interviews to map the common challenges across all the departments. A totally new challenge got presented; The hospital bed; an area where no serious innovation have been done the last 40 years.
15.01.2015
The start
15. January 2015:
A request from Associate Professor Cato Alexander Bjørkli (now CSO), to do a quick pitch about rehabilitation, ended up as as a draft on a napkin. But the hospital loved it, and so it begun!
14.06.2017
Approved for CCABHI
We are approved for the CCABHI program! That means CCBHI is using 600.000CAD to pay four hospitals to validate that our innovation prevents fall. The funding is also matched by Innovation Norway to cover our costs in the program, thus setting up our office in Toronto. We have also just hired a fantastic person to move to Toronto, and she will be reviled in October.
01.01.2016
Public funding
Public-Sector R&D funding granted with a frame of 5MNOK, and three more partners got added to our project: Helse Møre og Romsdal, Herøy Municipality, and Sykehuset Innlandet HF. Through these partners we now receive input from every part of health services like orthopaedics, cancer, rehabilitation, medical, intensiv care, home care services, and nursing home. Mapping, workshops, and working in the departments is done to get a full overview over all the common pains.
02.06.2015
Workshop at Sunnaas Hospital
First workshop with Sunnaas Hospital. Total of 20 people from all departments was present, where we used cognitive interviews to map the common challenges across all the departments. A totally new challenge got presented; The hospital bed; an area where no serious innovation have been done the last 40 years.
15.01.2015
The start
15. January 2015:
A request from Associate Professor Cato Alexander Bjørkli (now CSO), to do a quick pitch about rehabilitation, ended up as as a draft on a napkin. But the hospital loved it, and so it begun!
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Partners and collaborators
Hats off to the outstanding group of sharing individuals and engaging institutions with whom we have the pleasure to cooperate with!
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