Development of a non-contact clinical thermometer for hospitals and "at home" telehealth using NBIoT, BLE and WiFi communication platforms

使用 NBIoT、BLE 和 WiFi 通信平台为医院和“家庭”远程医疗开发非接触式体温计

• 批准号: 10021783
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: TRIMEDIKA LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10021783
• 关键词: Development; non; contact; clinical; thermometer

The project will develop, test and demonstrate how patient vital-sign data can be readily collected in real-time, automatically uploaded to electronic patient record databases and subsequently made available to clinical staff for review and analysis irrespective of their location. **Having this capability with a standalone, handheld device in the current Covid-19 crisis would be invaluable.**Non-contact, standalone, connected, clinical-grade thermometers will enable the nurse to measure a patient's temperature, and then the patient data sent via wireless communications to a network server, where the data will be used to update the patient's personal record in the central electronic medical record database (EMR). Having this information centrally stored on an electronic server will enable local and remote access of information by clinical and nursing staff caring for the patient.Temperature is one of the key vital signs used by medical staff in the diagnosing and monitoring of a patient's state of health. Clinically it is measured often and changing trends are closely monitored, but it can expose the patient to possible infections, and where manual recording of data is required, can be wasteful of nurses' time and open to transcription errors. A non-contact, connected, clinical thermometer addresses these current concerns, and offers up a number of key-enablers for wider and better patient care.**Key benefits can be summarised as:**• **Reduced risk of infections and patient discomfort/anxiety** -- NON-CONTACT device• **Lower costs -- no consumables** -- NON-CONTACT no touching of patient - and therefore no need for the disposable plastic sheaths as used with contact thermometers,• **Ready access to up-to-date patient data locally and remote** - CONNECTED• **Time savings for nurses** - no need for manual input of data or paper records, and reduced transcription errors.A key objective of the project will involve trials to demonstrate the real time collection, uploading/storing, and analysis of the temperatures of several different population groups, to include hospital patients and groups within the wider community, using the new innovative thermometer.The new device will build upon the existing non-connected TriTemp thermometer which has been clinically approved, and is currently used in many hospitals worldwide. A key outcome of the project will be to produce a set of devices suitable for the use-case validation trials in a clinical context.

该项目将开发，测试并证明如何轻易实时收集患者生命符号数据，自动上传到电子患者记录数据库，然后向临床人员提供以进行审查和分析，而不论其位置如何。 **在当前Covid-19危机中具有独立的手持设备具有这种能力是无价的。将这些信息集中存储在电子服务器上，将使照顾患者的临床和护士工作人员可以在本地和远程获取信息。感染是医务人员在诊断和监测患者健康状况方面使用的关键生命体征之一。从临床上讲，它经常测量，并且趋势变化受到密切监测，但是它可以使患者暴露于可能的感染以及需要手动记录数据的地方，可能会浪费护士的时间并开放转录错误。一个非接触，连接的临床温度计解决了这些当前的问题，并为更广泛，更好的患者护理提供了许多关键功能。温度计，•**准备访问本地和远程** - 连接的最新患者数据•**为护士节省时间** - 无需手动输入数据或纸质记录，并减少了转录错误。温度计。新设备将建立在现有的非连接Tritemp温度计上，该温度计已获得临床批准，目前在全球许多医院中使用。该项目的关键结果是在临床环境下生产一套适合用例验证试验的设备。