UB tool aims to make hospitals safer

Published March 29, 2017 This content is archived.

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WIVB-TV quotes UB researchers Matthew Bolton and Scott Eardley about Bolton’s research to develop a tool that prevents hospital alarm masking.

“You can have multiple sounds coming into the human ear at any given time and our ear can only encode a certain amount of information at any given frequency,” said Bolton, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.