Android app to track health of home-isolated
Highlight: Was developed by Ambala admn, Health Dept in Sept last
Tribune News Service
Ambala, May 7
An Android-based application and dashboard for patients in home isolation, which were developed by the district administration and the Health Department in September last year, will now be rolled out in the entire state.
The application was launched by Home and Health Minister Anil Vij and now it will be scaled up by the Director, National Health Mission, Haryana. It will help monitor the health of Covid positive patients in home isolation.
The application has two interfaces — patient interface and user interface. The users are doctors. Special teams visit patients every alternate day starting Day 2 until the 11th day of their home isolation period. The vitals such as saturation level, blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rate, are recorded on every visit through the application, in addition to the complete personal details of the patient filled during their initial registration.
An individual QR code is generated for every patient, which helps to ensure that teams are visiting the patients personally and scanning the QR code to be able to feed the vitals.
Every team member is registered with the district authorities and individual login IDs are created for them. The submission of the vitals for every patient are geo-tagged.
A parallel dashboard is prepared for the monitoring of such patients by the district authorities. The dashboard projects the status of every patient based on their vitals recorded and colour codes them based on the severity of the disease.
On the 11th day of the isolation period, doctors decide whether a patient is to be discharged, hospitalised or should continue to remain in home isolation.
Utsav Shah, Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associate, Ambala, said special attention was being given to the patients with co-morbidities.
