Can sensors and AI improve cleaning and patient safety?

09/10/2024 13 min Episodio 143
Can sensors and AI improve cleaning and patient safety?

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, recorded at the 2024 Infection Prevention Society Conference in Birmingham (UK) Brett and Martin talk to Conor McGinn, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and CEO of Akara AI, a robotics company spin-off from Trinity. We talk about a presentation that Conor gave, demonstrating how infrared sensors analysed by AI can provode feedback on techniques in the operating room and how they could improve cleaning standards in hospitals.
A link to the video we discussed is here https://youtu.be/CPCFuXyQarY?si=xh1RjXAaKeKY708a
and you can also see Conor's talk here https://youtu.be/3SCEkbwKhM4?si=uztJcnVIAe-vq5U8

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