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BEL, AIIMS Develop Remote Health Monitoring System

BENGALURU: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Rishikesh, in collaboration with Bengaluru-based defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), has developed a state-of-the-art health monitoring system to remotely assess the health of Covid-19 suspects or patients quarantined in homes and hospitals.
The solution, BEL said, aims to significantly reduce the risk of exposure to healthcare workers. It is also expected to reduce the increasing demand of PPE and other logistics. The team that built the system was led by Mohit Tayal and Rajasekhar M V, chief scientist at BEL’s Central Research Laboratory in Bengaluru.

“Faced with the pandemic, the need to develop a solution to remotely monitor patients for limiting exposure of healthcare workers was prime and urgent. To combat this need, AIIMS Rishikesh and BEL came together to provide a comprehensive digital and clinically appropriate solution,” BEL said, adding that it developed the proof-of-concept based on input given by AIIMS-Rishikesh.

It is a system integrating non-invasive health monitoring sensors to measure critical parameters such as temperature, pulse rate, SPO2 (Saturated Oxygen level) and respiration rate. BEL, which has proven expertise in network-centric and internet of things systems, has also networked these sensors for remotely monitoring the critical parameters.

“A mobile app / web browser has been developed for people to get enrolled with AIIMS-Rishikesh once they show symptoms of Covid-19. AIIMS will study patient complaints and based on the assessment by clinical experts, a health monitoring kit will be handed over to the patient for periodical monitoring of the critical parameters,” BEL added.

Patient health parameters, along with patient location, are uploaded on a regular basis to a centralised Command & Control Centre (CCC) on cloud using either the patient’s mobile phone or integral GSM SIM. The use of cloud will facilitate seamless scaling of the database of Covid-19/patients.

Then, the software will give out alerts in the form of messages to medical officers and health care workers when the health parameters exceed the threshold. It will also record the severity of the patient’s condition in different colour codes.

“Data analytics software of the CCC will also graphically map the geo-distribution of suspects/patients in the state. This would help the hospital administration in visualising the hot spots and taking necessary action to isolate and cordon off these areas to check the spread of the virus,” BEL said.-Times Of India

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