ChristianaCare rolls out ‘cobots’ to help nurses with non-clinical tasks
Healthcare IT News May 26, 2022
The “collaborative robots,” known as Moxi, will be linked with the Delaware health system’s Cerner EHR. They’re designed to make deliveries and collections, helping ease clinicians’ workload and enabling them to focus on care.
ChristianaCare this week announced some new help to augment its workforce: robotic assistants that can help nurses and other hospital staff spend more time with patients by automatic certain time-intensive tasks.
WHY IT MATTERS
The technology, called Moxi, is a collaborative robot that can work alongside nurses and interact with them directly, performing non-clinical tasks such as deliveries and pickups to enable them to focus on care delivery.
ChristianaCare purchased five of these 300-pound “cobots” – which can work 22-hour shifts, be fully charged in two hours...