The wearable-systems sector is being
used to help the health authorities deal with the COVID-19
pandemic thanks to an Italian-Swiss pilot project being
conducted at Milan's Luigi Sacco hospital.
The CoMo (Coronavirus Remote Monitoring of Outpatients) project
makes the remote monitoring of patients who have tested positive
for COVID-19 possible in real time.
The aim is to enable infected patients with cardiovascular and
respiratory problems to stay at home while being followed
remotely by hospital doctors and or their GPs.
The technology of Swiss company Vexatec was chosen for project,
conducted in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA),
as well as the CSEM consortium of Swiss brands in the
microelectronics field and Italy's data-management firm EOS.
Vexatec said its project was chosen from among 3,000 competitors
thanks to its precision and reliability.
As a result it was able to launch a project with Milan's Sacco
hospital with the aim of fully entering the telemedicine field
by the second quarter of 2021.
"Our technology is different because it is the only one with
sensors that are not installed independently but connected to
each other in a comprehensive way and capable of providing data
accessible from a platform," it said.
"This makes it possible, in the medical field for example, to
have the base parameters of a patient under control remotely and
in real time, simply by them wearing an armband or T-shirt with
sensors".
The sensors were initially developed for ESA missions.
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