What is an ideal emergency medical unit? What is the need of the hour?
| Shreeram Iyer |
An ideal emergency medical unit is one which can deliver the right medical treatment to the patient based on all his/ her latest vital parameters. The need of the hour is telemedicine which entails both remote delivery of patients’ vital data and then corresponding treatment remotely wherever possible.
What are remote access information devices? What role does these devices play in enhancing emergency medical service?
Remote access information devices enable real-time access to data across long distances. In the medical world this has become imperative as more and more diagnostic data indicate that timely administering of the correct treatment would have definitely resulted in exponentially better results.
How does this system work?
Our MDS3 system has a small device called the Medibox which once synchronised with all the sensors measuring various vital parameters of a patient can transmit realtime online data to either the hospital management system or to the doctors’ hand-held device directly or to the patients’ relatives with built in trigger mechanisms to alert the emergency services of the hospitals for ambulance etc.
What is the required infrastructure for putting such a system in place?
Ideally, we would require the sensors to be bluetooth enabled (which if they follow the standard ISO protocols, they should be) and to have Wi-Fi access to the Internet (which again most hospitals and middle class families in metros have) and any Internet access for the medical representatives (which again 3G has enabled most mobile device users).
Tell us about your product Medibox or MDS3. What are its benefits?
- It allows to monitor vital health parameters whenever and wherever you want with online real time information.
- It allows storing, accessing and retrieving patient information in a simpler, faster and convenient way.
- Dependability and expertise of one person factor is no more existing as the product is user friendly platform and designed to get the health status of the patient right on mobile and PC.
- Fully automated, multiple devices adaptability that offers new level of productivity, safety and quality.
- The device can be installed in hospitals, ambulances, corporate offices and at home too, as it consumes less energy, no heat emission and workable for 24×7
- Mobile and PC’s can be connected through bluetooth, W-LAN and USB
What is the turnaround time of a emergency response service using Medibox?
When connected, it is a complete online real time solution, providing immediate triggers for the emergency response system.
Does this product have the capability to provide telemedicine services?
It is being used in a couple of hospital chains in Germany as part of a complete telemedicine solution, especially for the elderly and the disabled.
In how many hospitals or EMS groups have you installed your product?
It is live in around seven hospital chains of Germany and Switzerland which have some of the highest standards for medicine.
What is the approximate cost involved in setting up this system?
One standalone device which will cater to 10 sensory devices simultaneously, could be connected to multiple end user clinical systems. Based on these parameters it could cost in the range of Rs 200,000 to Rs 350,000 per device.