Last night I was having a conversation with some friends and we got around to talking about trying to sleep in the hospital. When I worked as a chaplain in a hospital, sleeplessness was the number one complaint I heard. Most people find trying to sleep in hospitals with all the lights, beeps, wires, and interruptions terribly hard. As we were talking, I thought about the apps which monitor sleep while laying the device on the sleeping surface. What a research project it would be to put motion sensors on the inside of the top of the hospital air mattresses and then hook them up to the software which uses the sensory data from the detectors to track sleep cycles and pulse. This would mean a few less wires, lights, beeps, and interruptions for the hospital patients. Granted there are a number of other aspects of a patient's health and vitals which would need to be monitored throughout the night, but the more rest available for each patient may speed recovery time.
Obviously, this is not research that I could do at the moment, but my friends and I thought it was an interesting idea. Perhaps someone else is already doing this kind of research or will do this kind of research in the future. After all, even technology is able to help medicine occasionally. ;)
Obviously, this is not research that I could do at the moment, but my friends and I thought it was an interesting idea. Perhaps someone else is already doing this kind of research or will do this kind of research in the future. After all, even technology is able to help medicine occasionally. ;)
