Hoivita offers health insights on patients’ nighttime well-being

Challenge: Helsinki: Wildcard – How can innovative remote diagnostics improve city services?

Target Group: Elderly

The Hoivita Oy pilot concentrated on enhancing night-time care and safety for elderly individuals at risk of falls or mobility-related incidents. Hoivita Oy supplied 12 “Hoivita Care Oloseuranta” service kits, which included motion and door activity sensors, the Hoivita SafeApp mobile application, and access to the Hoivita One View cloud platform. These components enabled care professionals at the Töölö Senior Centre, City of Helsinki, to receive real-time notifications when a resident moved independently during the night, facilitating faster intervention to prevent potentially harmful situations.

The pilot had two main objectives: to evaluate whether the Hoivita system could provide more effective support to nursing staff compared to existing, older monitoring technologies, and to assess the system’s ease of adoption within a real-life care environment. Although a significant software bug was encountered early in the trial, it was swiftly resolved. Following this, the solution exhibited strong performance throughout the remainder of the pilot. Co-creation activities involved more than 20 people, including more than 5 elders. Nursing staff responded favourably to the system’s usability, prompt alerts, and accessible data visualisations.