Wearable wireless technology for remote health monitoring of COVID-19 patients

社交距离被全球推荐以减缓COVID-19病毒传播，以防止医疗系统超负荷。特别是，医院就诊增加了未感染患者和医护人员的感染风险。因此，虚拟医疗保健可以在许多方面帮助医疗保健系统。尽管可穿戴设备在市场上可用于娱乐和健康跟踪目的，但其作为测量临床上有意义的生命体征的生物医学设备的应用受到限制。该项目旨在开发一种用户友好、低成本和医疗级的可穿戴传感器系统，用于准确可靠地测量与感染或易感染COVID-19的患者的健康监测相关的生命体征。这项研究的结果使远程健康监测实时和医疗保健提供者的即时行动，而无需与患者直接的物理交互。因此，所提出的技术可以挽救患者和医护人员的生命，并显着降低直接和间接的医疗成本，同时改善健康结果。

Social distancing is recommended globally to slow down the COVID-19 virus spread in order to prevent the healthcare system overload. Particularly, hospital visits increase the risk of infection for non-infected patients and healthcare workers. Therefore, virtual healthcare can help the healthcare system in many ways. Although wearables are commercially available in the market for entertainment and health tracking purposes, their application as a biomedical device for measurement of clinically meaningful vital signs has been limited. This project aims to develop a user-friendly, low cost, and medical-grade wearable sensor system for accurate and reliable measurement of vital signs relevant to health monitoring for patients infected with or susceptible to COVID-19. The outcome of this research enables remote health monitoring in real-time and the immediate action of healthcare providers without direct physical interaction with patients. Hence, the proposed technology can be lifesaving for both patients and healthcare workers and significantly reduce direct and indirect healthcare costs while improving health outcomes.