Technological prospecting of patents related to monitoring accidents due to falls in hospitals.

OBJECTIVES

to map the production of technologies aimed at monitoring falls in a hospital environment protected by registered patents.

METHODS

a technological prospecting of international patents, with a quantitative approach, with search carried out between February and March 2022 in the Derwent Innovations Index database with descriptors fall, hospital, monitoring.

RESULTS

212 patents were found, with the majority filed and published since 2010, by Tran B (9) and Cerner Innovation Inc (9), focused on health technology. Universities were responsible for 13% of deposits. There was a predominance of records from the United States (43.4%), China (21.7%) and Japan (12.3%), in addition to technological strategies classified as devices for the environment (80.7%) and for preventing falls (66.5%) as well as trend towards resources with multiple functionalities in the same technology.

CONCLUSIONS

the plurality of functions in the same device reflects the search for optimizing resources and the concern with comprehensive care.