Applying technology to prevent COVID-19

Many technology application solutions to help hospitals prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic have just been introduced by the Informatics Association (HCA) in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology (Science and Technology) of Ho Chi Minh City at the meeting. Tektalk thematic series 3: "Technology for the prevention and control of Covid-19 in hospitals and medical facilities". These solutions are highly practical, contributing to disease prevention and control in the new normal.

Application of Covid-19 prevention and control technology

To help hospitals classify patients, limit contact between patients and medical staff, manage people entering and leaving the hospital, supporting patient health monitoring…, TMA Innovation Company , Quang Trung Software Park has launched mCare and T-Check solutions. Currently, the mCare solution is being tested in two hospitals for Covid-19 patients; at the same time, support the patient (F0) who is being treated at home. The benefits that this device brings are quite obvious, allowing monitoring of a large number of patients remotely at the same time, helping to detect complications early for timely treatment before serious changes; Limit contact between patients and medical staff, reduce the risk of infection.

Mrs. Ho Thi Hoang Yen, Head of Business Development Department, TMA Innovation Company said: mCare is a device Wearables help monitor patient health remotely, patients use wearable devices (watches) to monitor blood oxygen levels, heart rate, blood pressure, health indicators as well as send SOS signals and Connect with doctors remotely. And T-Check is an automatic patient screening and access management solution at medical facilities. This device supports automatic body temperature measurement, warning not to wear a mask, face recognition, medical declaration, reading QR Code, green card, yellow card ... T-Check when deployed will have many advantages such as: compact equipment, easy to move and install, low cost; The data is saved and processed at an internal server managed by the medical facility.

About the camera application in medical facilities, Mr. Tran Du Hoa Binh, Solution Director IoT solution - VNG Cloud offers a Cloud Camera AI application solution to enhance security and safety in medical facilities. Cloud Camera AI has features that integrate smart cameras in medical facilities such as attendance (face recognition, attendance attendance), temperature check, limit the number of people in the work area, compliance identification, and more. wearing masks, warning dangerous areas, limiting the number of people in public areas. These features are aimed at maintaining measures to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection in the medical facility environment. In the long term, when Covid-19 is over, these features will still be useful for medical facilities to use every day with the aim of increasing safety for patients and medical staff.

For the Covidmaps map, this solution has reached the top 10 creative and technological solutions in the 2021 HIS-Covid contest organized by the city's Department of Science and Technology. Covidmaps uses map technology to build a system that provides information about the epidemic situation to people in an intuitive, timely and clear way. The highlight of the solution is the use of "Make in Vietnam" mapping technology to save deployment and operation costs, master the technology of deploying separate Covidmaps systems on the DataCenter infrastructure of each province and city. .

Covidmaps solution is also highly scalable, so localities can deploy and expand other features such as providing information on essential sales maps, traffic green channels, vaccination map… Currently, Covidmaps are deployed in 18 provinces and cities in Vietnam with more than 120,000 locations uploaded to the system. Each province and city has a separate Covidmaps system running on the data center of each locality, easily customizing the map feature according to actual use needs.

The Experts said that it is very important to apply technological solutions in the prevention and control of Covid-19 in medical facilities and businesses, especially in the new normal period. Therefore, it is necessary to bring technology solutions to businesses, units, and medical facilities to support them to adapt flexibly and safely in the new situation, as well as be ready to face new challenges. next wave if any occurs. Ms. Phan Thi Quy Truc, Deputy Head of Technology Management and Technology Market Department (Department of Science and Technology) said: The HIS - Covid program in 2021 has found the top 10 best solutions and continues to implement it. deeper connection steps to introduce these solutions to those who have application needs.

At the same time, the city Department of Science and Technology also implemented specific connection activities with the the city's policy towards innovative solutions related to Covid such as investment matching program; connect, form and develop an ecosystem for the health sector, build an online ecosystem for digital transformation in health to connect and share existing resources in society, promote the formation of Medical ideas and solutions. Thereby, forming a long-term program of cooperation between the private sector and the state to create products with competitive advantages for the city related to health...