A Lancashire company has been awarded nearly £100,000 to develop a system to prevent older patients falling from their beds. Lancaster-based Rinicare has received £99,694 through the Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare).
Rinicare is developing a system to avoid falls that combines a thermal imaging sensor and bespoke algorithms on a computer to detect changes in a patient’s position in a hospital-style bed. It will send early warning messages to clinicians so action can be taken to prevent a fall. Rinicare will develop ‘SAFE’ in cooperation with The University of Manchester and The University Hospital of South Manchester.
