ChristianaCare in Delaware this week brought on some new help to augment its workforce: robotic assistants that can help nurses and other hospital staff spend more time with patients by automating certain time-intensive tasks.
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, Mobi Helath News reports.
ChristianaCare purchased five of these 300-pound “cobots” – which can work 22-hour shifts, be fully charged in two hours and carry up to 70 pounds – with a $1.5 million grant from the American Nurses Foundation.
The Moxi cobots will soon be integrated with ChristianaCare’s Cerner electronic health record platform, officials say. Read more.
