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、测试和演示如何轻松实时收集患者生命体征数据，自动上传到电子患者记录数据库，然后供临床工作人员进行审查和分析，无论他们身在何处。在当前的 Covid-19 危机中，独立手持设备的功能将是非常宝贵的。**非接触式、独立、联网、临床级温度计将使护士能够测量患者的体温，然后通过无线发送患者数据与网络服务器的通信，其中的数据将用于更新中央电子病历数据库（EMR）中的患者个人记录，将此信息集中存储在电子服务器上将使临床和护理人员能够本地和远程访问信息。体温是医务人员诊断和监测患者健康状况的关键生命体征之一，临床上经常测量体温，并密切监测其变化趋势，但它可能使患者暴露于可能的风险。感染，以及在哪里需要手动记录数据，这会浪费护士的时间，并且容易出现转录错误。非接触式联网体温计解决了当前的这些问题，并为更广泛、更好的患者护理提供了许多关键推动因素。 **主要优点可概括为：**• **降低感染和患者不适/焦虑的风险** -- 非接触式设备• **更低的成本 -- 无需消耗品** -- 非接触式无需接触病人 -因此不需要像接触式温度计那样使用一次性塑料护套，• **随时可以在本地和远程访问最新的患者数据** - 已连接• **为护士节省时间** - 无需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涉及试验，以证明实时收集、上传/存储和分析几个不同人群的温度，包括医院患者和医院内的人群更广泛的社区，利用新的创新新设备将以现有的非连接 TriTemp 温度计为基础，该温度计已获得临床批准，目前已在全球许多医院使用。该项目的一个主要成果将是生产一套适合该用例的设备。临床背景下的验证试验。