NEW DELHI :
Manipal Hospitals will use Google’s Fitbit wearables and a distant monitoring platform to verify sufferers recovering after high-risk surgical procedure.
Fitbit gadgets, together with the affected person monitoring platform, shall be supplied by ConnectedLife, a Singapore-based well being administration options firm. Manipal Hospitals stated it signed a strategic partnership with the health merchandise firm. “Via this partnership, we predict post-surgery care to grow to be seamless, as wearable know-how will assist us monitor sure crucial parameters of sufferers who’ve undergone complete knee alternative surgical procedure, angioplasty, cardiac bypass surgical procedure, and different high-risk surgical procedures,” stated Sudarshan Ballal, chairman of Manipal Hospitals.
The gadgets will learn and document affected person knowledge similar to coronary heart price, oxygen saturation stage, sleep high quality, steps, and ache rating earlier than and after the surgical procedure. The captured knowledge shall be shared on the ConnectedLife platform for the medical doctors to evaluate.
Along with maintaining observe of sufferers’ well being, the monitoring platform might be tailor-made for every affected person to ship them reminders to take medicines or do physiotherapy on time. It will possibly additionally ship out alerts if it detects any main shift within the physiological parameters.
Sufferers who have been a part of the preliminary programme have seen enhancements when it comes to taking medication or doing workouts in time, leading to higher bodily exercise after surgical procedure, Manipal Hospitals claims.
Dilip Jose, the managing director and chief government of Manipal Hospitals, stated, “the platform will permit the hospital to exchange prolonged handbook processes with 24/7 insight-based care and monitoring, enabling restoration outdoors of hospitals.”
Jose believes the info collected from the ConnectedLife platform also can assist the hospital perceive and develop new strategies in cost-effectiveness, compliance, affected person consolation and ease of use.
Daryl Arnold, the founder and chief government officer of ConnectedLife, stated his firm will add new options and capabilities each two to 4 weeks primarily based on suggestions from sufferers and medical doctors. Fitbit stated it’s working with ConnectedLife to interact with strategic companions like Manipal Hospitals and develop and implement options that may assist construct a digital well being ecosystem in India.
Use of distant monitoring instruments to help sufferers recovering from residence has grown in India. A number of service suppliers providing Web of Issues (IoT) enabled beds and wearables have additionally proliferated, particularly after the covid-19 outbreak.
Supply: Live Mint