Looking Forward

As part of the academic collaboration between Hillel Yaffe Medical Center and Ruppin Academic Center, the two organizations held a wrap-up meeting where projects developed through their partnership over the past year were presented. The meeting was attended by members of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center's management and staff, as well as project coordinators, instructors and students from Ruppin who participated in developing and advancing the projects.

In recent years, there has been productive collaboration in innovation and research between Hillel Yaffe Medical Center and Ruppin Academic Center, led by Deputy Director of the Medical Center, Dr. Dikla Dahan Shriki, and Innovation and Research Director at Hillel Yaffe (IRA-HYMC), Dr. Sharon Rashi-Elkeles. The purpose of the partnership is twofold: to improve the quality of care and service provided to the medical center's patients while streamlining its work processes, and training the future generation of engineers who are about to complete their studies at the college and enter the professional engineering workforce.

At the meeting, attended by HYMC management and senior representatives of Ruppin Academic Center, several projects developed over the past year between students from Ruppin's Faculty of Engineering and Hillel Yaffe staff members were presented.

Participants in the wrap-up meeting presenting projects developed as part of the collaboration between Hillel Yaffe and Ruppin Academic College

One of the projects presented involved developing a system for management of blood test result monitoring in the Surgery Department and alerts for abnormal findings. It will further enable the blood tests to be viewed directly in the patient's file more conveniently and faster, identifying abnormal values, while managing and improving test monitoring, and even receiving medical recommendations for appropriate antibiotics.

Another project presented dealt with the ability to predict how long a planned surgery will take, given the unique data of both the patient and the surgeon, so that operating rooms can be utilized optimally. As the rooms are an expensive and limited resource, the more accurate the prediction of the amount of time each surgery will take, the more effectively the number of surgeries performed each day can be planned.

Director General of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Prof. Mickey Dudkiewicz praised the participants for the impressive projects presented and stressed the importance of collaboration between the two organizations, which on one hand generates meaningful topics for students' final projects, and on the other hand advances cutting-edge medical research and development of practical solutions that improve and streamline work processes, and of course, enhance quality of care, availability and service for the medical center's patients.