NEW DELHI: Manipal Hospitals has stated it should use Google’s Fitbit wearables and a distant monitoring platform to test on the progress of sufferers who’ve undergone a high-risk surgical procedure.
The Fitbit gadgets together with the affected person monitoring platform will likely be supplied by ConnectedLife, a Singapore-based well being administration options firm. Manipal Hospitals stated it has signed a strategic partnership with the corporate.
“By this partnership, we expect post-surgery care to develop into seamless, as wearable know-how will assist us monitor sure essential parameters of sufferers who’ve undergone whole knee alternative surgical procedure, angioplasty, cardiac bypass surgical procedure, and different high-risk surgical procedures,” stated Sudarshan Ballal, chairman of Manipal Hospitals.
The Fitbit gadgets will learn and report affected person knowledge corresponding to coronary heart price, oxygen saturation degree, sleep high quality, steps, and ache rating earlier than and after the surgical procedure. The captured knowledge will likely be shared on the ConnectedLife platform for the docs to evaluate.
Along with holding observe of sufferers’ well being, the monitoring platform could be tailor-made for every affected person to ship them reminders to take medicines or do physiotherapy on time. It could additionally ship out alerts if it detects any main shift within the physiological parameters.
Sufferers who have been a part of the preliminary program have seen enhancements by way of taking drugs or doing workouts in time, leading to higher bodily exercise after surgical procedure, Manipal Hospitals claims.
Dilip Jose, managing director, and chief govt officer of Manipal Hospitals factors out, “the platform will permit the hospital to interchange prolonged guide 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 value effectiveness, compliance, affected person consolation and ease of use.
Daryl Arnold, founder, and chief govt officer of ConnectedLife stated his firm will add new options and capabilities each two to 4 weeks primarily based on suggestions from sufferers and docs.
Fitbit on its half stated it’s working with ConnectedLife to have interaction 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 dwelling has grown in India. A number of service suppliers providing Web of Issues (IoT) enabled beds and wearables have additionally proliferated, particularly after covid-19 outbreak.
Nonetheless, with the rising use of apps for session and adoption of digital options by healthcare suppliers, the privateness and safety considerations over affected person knowledge and who has entry to it have additionally grown.
Arnold assured that his firm will keep the strictest accountability for knowledge acquisition, privateness, and safety.
Supply: Live Mint