Tele-Medical System For Remote Monitoring Of Patients With Covid 19 And Other Infectious Diseases

Area of Science:

• Biomedical Engineering
• Health Informatics
• Telemedicine

Background:

• The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for effective telemedicine solutions.
• Commercial patient monitoring systems are often expensive due to proprietary hardware and software.
• Social distancing measures increased the demand for remote patient care.

Purpose of the Study:

• To demonstrate the feasibility of creating a cost-effective telemedicine platform.
• To utilize free and open-source software (FOSS) combined with readily available hardware.
• To provide a viable alternative to expensive commercial telemedicine systems.

Main Methods:

• Integration of FOSS components for data acquisition, processing, and transmission.
• Utilizing existing market hardware for patient monitoring.
• Developing a platform architecture focused on accessibility and affordability.

Main Results:

• Successful development of a functional telemedicine platform using FOSS and COTS hardware.
• Demonstrated cost savings compared to traditional commercial systems.
• Validated the platform's capability for seamless patient monitoring.

Conclusions:

• A cost-effective and functional telemedicine platform can be built using FOSS and COTS hardware.
• This approach offers a scalable solution for remote patient monitoring.
• Open-source telemedicine systems can improve healthcare accessibility and reduce costs.