Artificial intelligence watches hospital workers put on PPE to check for COVID safety

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Sydney Morning Herald article on innovation at MQ-  Artificial intelligence watches hospital workers put on PPE to check for COVID safety.   
Associate Professor Veronica Preda, who oversaw the trials of the app with final year student doctors Anand Jayapadman and Alexandra Zacharakis, said there were no standardised protocols for PPE procedure across hospitals, aged care or disability facilities, with places often relying on a “buddy” system to check for errors. The reality in a busy hospital, she said, was that nurses often did not have the time to perform this role.

“It’s also about how much training have they had? How confident are they? And is this the best use of their skill set when we’ve already got a fatigued workforce that is task-saturated,” she said.