Kori Medical Cart | 2021

Designers: Roger Lam, MBX Systems, Libertyville, Illinois, USA
Manufacturer: MBX Systems, Libertyville, Illinois, USA

Kori is an industry-first modular mobile medical car that can be outfitted with different cameras, workstations, and peripherals to deliver new computer vision applications that improve patient care in hospital environments. This ability to adapt to different technology requirements without designing and building single-purpose hardware eliminates the need for medical technology developers to pay $100,000+ for custom cart design, engineering, and mold injection.

It also shortens hardware development from a year or more to as little as three months by making it possible to customize off-the-shelf hardware with different components tailored to the specific application. The result is a cost-effective means of deploying new technologies combining cameras and artificial intelligence to detect patient falls, screen body temperatures, facilitate patient-healthcare provider communication, enable remote live surgery collaborations, and other applications made possible by technology advances.

Regardless of the specific components selected, cameras tuck unobtrusively into the head of the cart, and computers running the artificial intelligence software stay out of sight in a cavity in the base. Keyboards, monitors and articulating arms can be added as required for different applications.

In addition, thanks to ongoing improvements in computing performance, software applications installed on the Kori platform can perform all data processing in the hospital room or anywhere else the cart is placed. This eliminates the privacy, bandwidth, and latency complications that have typically prevented hospitals from adopting newer camera-based technologies that require sending data to the cloud. Kori also features 246 individually programmable LEDs that can be programmed to light up in different scenarios, such as when a hospital patient is speaking to the nursing station.