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

该项目将开发、测试和演示如何容易地实时收集患者生命体征数据，自动上载到电子患者记录数据库，然后提供给临床工作人员进行审查和分析，无论他们在哪里。**在当前的新冠肺炎危机中，拥有这种独立的手持设备的能力将是无价的。**非接触式、独立的、联网的临床级体温计将使护士能够测量患者的体温，然后通过无线通信将患者数据发送到网络服务器，在那里数据将被用来更新中央电子病历数据库中患者的个人记录。将这些信息集中存储在电子服务器上，将使护理患者的临床和护理人员能够在本地和远程访问信息。温度是医务人员在诊断和监测患者健康状况时使用的关键生命指标之一。在临床上，它经常被测量，并密切监测变化的趋势，但它可能会使患者暴露在可能的感染中，如果需要手动记录数据，可能会浪费护士的时间，并容易出现转录错误。非接触式联网临床体温计解决了当前的这些问题，并为更广泛和更好的患者护理提供了许多关键推动因素。**主要好处可以概括为：**·**减少感染和患者不适/焦虑的风险**--非接触式设备·**成本更低--没有耗材**--非接触式不接触患者--因此不需要与接触式体温计一起使用的一次性塑料护套，·**随时访问本地和远程**联网的最新患者数据*为护士节省时间**-不需要手动输入数据或纸质记录，并减少转录错误。该项目的一个关键目标将包括试验，演示使用新的创新温度计实时收集、上传/存储和分析几个不同人口群体的温度，包括更广泛社区中的医院患者和群体。新设备将建立在现有的非联网TriTemp温度计的基础上，该温度计已获得临床批准，目前正在全球许多医院使用。该项目的一个关键成果将是生产一套适用于临床环境中的用例验证试验的设备。

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.