Nurses Use Makerspace To Invent Custom Health Care Solutions (hackaday.com)

New submitter wd5gnr writes: University of Texas Medical Branch and an MIT initiative have joined forces to create the first maker space in a hospital. Often nurses see things that would make their jobs easier or a patient's care better and now they can create custom solutions to those problems. They aim to spread this to other hospitals and form a community of medical makers.

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Maker-Space in Hospital?

[turkeydance]

that's the delivery room.

Re:Maker-Space in Hospital?

[Zero__Kelvin]

Holy shit. You were the frosty piss, and you screwed it up that horribly? The hotel elevator is the maker space. The delivery room is just the destination address on the slightly torn shipping label.

Re:Nothing patient related I hope

[OzPeter]

Lawyers would have a field day with this.

I know that this is /. but if you read TFA you'd see that this is already covered.

I asked Young about the ramifications of making what amounts to medical devices. She replied, “Hospitals already have the processes in place to do investigational studies, and these are treated just like those studies.”