Thrive

February 18, 2016

How can we make transition from hospital to home easy for infants?

Thrive was conceptualised and prototyped as part of student project at Imperial College and Royal College of Art.

Thrive is a companion for the families of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, creating a seamless transition from hospital to home. Each year, 80,000 UK-born babies need specialised medical care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Babies often transition from the NICU to home while they still need regular medical monitoring. Thrive assists parents in caring for their baby and communicating with doctors.

The device integrates with existing medical sensor technology and records information about the baby’s health and environment. The data is stored in the cloud. It can be accessed and easily understood by both parents and medical professionals. Thrive is part of the future of preventative patient-centered healthcare, helping parents to monitor high-risk infants and reducing communication time for both parents and medical professionals, so that any problems are captured early and the whole family has the best chance at long and healthy lives.

Insights from research at NICU:

Storyboarding Thrive:

Wireframes that illustrates how the digital service assists communication between parents and nurse:

Here’s a service map that illustrates how information flows across various people and how Thrive’s platform assist this flow:

 

Sensors in the device:

 

Working prototype:

Early ideation sketches and quick mockups for user interviews:

Innovation Design Engineering, Imperial College London and Royal College of Art, December 2014
Credits: Project in collaboration with Ammo Liao, Chunhao Weng & Erika Laiche

Exhibited in Work In Progress Show 2015 and ShowRCA 2015
Part of Imperial Create Lab and finalist of Venture Capitalist Challenge 2015 Cohort