Client Profile:
Cerner is a global supplier of healthcare solutions. Working together with more than 8,000 clients worldwide, Cerner is solving healthcare's many challenges by making sure the right people have the right information at the right time. Since 1979, Cerner's three founders, Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig and Paul Gorup have focused on building a healthcare company that creates unmatched value for its clients.

Project Opportunity:
The dynamic and unfamiliar setting of the hospital environment poses multiple challenges in regards to navigation. Patients, family members, staff, consulting healthcare professionals, and visitors often find themselves in a position where they are unable to locate specific places. Currently, visitors and staff have to rely on confusing maps, verbal instructions, and memory for navigation purposes.

In addition to effectively navigating the hospital environment, effective communication and presentation of clinical data to the clinician is imperative to ensure accurate patient care decisions are made.

Project Solution:
The UNL Cerner Design Studio team will develop a Navigation/"Nurse's Brain" "iGo" Companion that will assist with locating a person, place, or thing, and provide a nursing-based Clinical Patient Summary that will assist the nurse with making appropriate clinical decisions.

The solution will first be developed as a web application to be viewed on a variety of mobile devices and later as an iPhone specific application. Users will use an intuitive interface to find people, places, or things in a dynamic real time environment.

Technologies:

• Java / J2EE
• RESTful web services
• Objective C
• Sonitor (Ultrasound Sensor Technology)
• Premises