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Nurses Use Makerspace To Invent Custom Health Care Solutions

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: October 21st, 2015, 10:00pm UTC

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.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Nurses+Use+Makerspace+To+Invent+Custom+Health+Care+Solutions%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1PBbrcJ"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbuild.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F10%2F21%2F2156206%2Fnurses-use-makerspace-to-invent-custom-health-care-solutions%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://build.slashdot.org/story/15/10/21/2156206/nurses-use-makerspace-to-invent-custom-health-care-solutions?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://build.slashdot.org/story/15/10/21/2156206/nurses-use-makerspace-to-invent-custom-health-care-solutions?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/jX0l6PrXb7U" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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