CHENNAI, JUNE 22
The Tamil Nadu government has rolled out the Remote Patient Monitoring System (RPMS) on Saturday. The RPMS system is being implemented to protect the doctors and frontline workers at the Government Specialty Medical College at Omandurar Estate in Chennai.
Government Specialty Medical College, Omandurar Estate, Chennai, a dedicated centre for COVID-19 patients has implemented a Remote Patient Monitoring Solution from Stasis, a Bangalore- based start-up to manage COVID-19 patients. By allowing medical workers to remotely monitor patients on their smartphone, laptop, or central monitors, remote patient monitoring significantly reduces the frequency of contact with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients, thereby protecting the staff and reducing the requirement for PPEs, a release said.
The USFDA cleared, Made in India remote patient monitoring solution allows doctors to see real-time patient vitals and high-resolution trends on their smartphones or a central dashboard thereby minimizing the exposure to COVID-19 patients. By eliminating manual monitoring by the nurse, it also reduces the exposure of nurses to COVID-19 patients and reduces the requirement of PPE.
The solution measures six core vitals – heart rate, SpO2, ECG, respiratory rate, non-invasive blood pressure, and skin temperature. Being a plug-and-play device, it requires no additional IT infrastructure, which helps in setting up a central nursing station within hours.
Further, the Stasis Smart Alert system that is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) proactively warns clinicians of impending patient deterioration to increase patient safety through early identification and intervention.
“Stasis remote patient monitoring was built to get the right information, to the right stakeholder, at the right time to improve patient monitoring outcomes.
The ease of installation, ease of use, and ability to go live in minutes to hours rather than days is the reason we have been successful in implementing remote monitoring technology.
In the current scenario, remote patient monitoring is the need of the hour and will significantly improve care delivery and safety at our partner hospitals”, says Roheet Rao, Director of Stasis Health Pvt Ltd.
Praising the initiative, J. Radhakrishnan, Health Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu said that this is an excellent innovation with regard to minimising the risk of COVID-19 exposure to the medical fraternity who inaugurated it at Government Medical College, Omandurar, Chennai.
The initiative has been sponsored by A V Anoop, Chairman, Medimix Group of Companies & Chairman of World Malayalee Council, and implemented through the leadership of Varsha Aswani, Founder, Born To Win Research Foundation, the release added.
