/ -- As Bengaluru braces for a surge in COVID-19 cases, hospitals are using an Indian startup's cutting-edge remote patient monitoring system to set up isolation wards to manage the increased demand. Medical experts predict that the city's intensive care units (ICU) will be overwhelmed at the peak of the pandemic and the highly infectious disease will pose serious threats to both medical workers and other hospital patients.
To counter this, Ramaiah Medical College Hospital (RMCH) and Stasis have teamed up to set up remote monitored isolation wards to manage suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19, while protecting their healthcare workers and other hospitalized patients from unnecessary exposure. By allowing medical workers to remotely monitor patients on their smartphone, laptop or central monitors, remote patient monitoring significantly reduces the frequency of contact with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients thereby protecting the staff and reducing the requirement for PPEs, which are in short supply.
"We have equipped our isolation wards with Stasis to ensure the highest level of care and patient safety, while also protecting our staff and doctors from unnecessary exposure to Covid-19," says Dr. Anil Kumar, Prof & HOD, Internal Medicine, RMCH. "With a remote patient monitoring solution like Stasis, we were able to set-up a central monitoring station on a different floor to ensure our doctors can manage these cases without having to be in the ward."
"Stasis was able to implement their solution within a few hours, with minimal IT support and infrastructure requirement. This is ideal for us as our isolation wards have been set up away from the main hospital to protect those patients that come here for emergency care," says Dr. Harish K, Associate Dean, RMCH. "We also have to work with reduced staffing, which is possible with Stasis as it automates data collection and risk scoring, and has AI-driven proactive notifications to identify patient deterioration early. This is a big advantage of having a solution like Stasis."
Dr. Roheet adds, "We are actively helping governments, private hospitals, and special projects to design and implement remote patient monitoring, which is the need of the hour. Our customers choose us for the ease of implementation, USFDA cleared clinical accuracy, affordability and above all, the ease with which we can go live and get the right data to the right stakeholder in a timely fashion to save lives."
About Ramaiah Medical College Hospital:
Learn more: https://www.msrmc.ac.in/#
About Stasis Health Pvt Ltd:
Learn more: www.stasislabs.com
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