Empowering Patients with Smart Bedside Cabinets

So what is the Kinetic Intelligent Bedside Cabinet and why has it been making waves in the UK recently?

For those familiar with hospital visits, alongside the bed the other mainstay is the bedside locker - used to house dressing gowns, slippers and personal items. 

But what if these primely located lockers could become smart lockers instead?

That is the route one leading UK biotech company is headed. 

Kinetic-ID Ltd is a fast-growing Biotech company specializing in the design and manufacture of mobile workstations and other powered devices working across healthcare and life science markets both in the UK and internationally.

The intelligent bedside cabinet enables self administration of medication, turning the humble bedside locker into a powerful smart bedside aide that can empower the patient while also saving valuable clinician time. 
‍

Not only does it store routine medicines securely, but it also alerts patients (or guardians) when it’s time to take their medication. It also provides rich data that can help nursing staff assess how well a patient is managing their daily medication routines. Downstream benefits are also compelling as the additional data allows clinicians to make better-informed decisions, while also supporting patients to self-medicate, creating a routine that could helps to reduce readmission rates.

“This product has the potential to change healthcare not just in the UK but across the globe. The development of the Bedside Intelligent Cabinet would have been much, much slower without the input of NHS Grampian and I don’t think we would ever get our product market-ready and fit for purpose without their help.” 

Wayne Miller, Senior Solutions Consultant at Kinetic-ID

Currently, on trial at NHS Grampian (the medical ward at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital is the first testing site in the UK), Medication Safety Advisor at NHS Grampian, Lindsay Cameron explained: 

“Self- administration of medicine is about supporting individuals to take their own medication while in hospital. It’s not suitable for every patient or every medicine, but it can improve patient satisfaction and confidence, encourage independence and self-care in a safe environment, and improve an individual’s knowledge and understanding of their medication. This can help those already on medicines to continue to self-administer while they are admitted to hospital and others getting used to new medications to feel better prepared when it’s time to go home.”

For Kirsty Mair, "The aim is to hopefully get Jacob home for Christmas. It would mean absolutely everything." 

The hope is that the Kinetic Intelligent Bedside Cabinet can play a small part in helping Jacob on his journey.