Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
Anonymous data transfer for hospitals, health authorities and doctors’ offices
Objective
The pandemic management app provides health authorities and hospitals with a straightforward way of keeping in touch with patients as well as people placed in quarantine because they may have been infected with COVID-19. By answering a series of daily questions, patients can digitally transmit information relating to factors such as temperature, pulse rate and blood pressure without leaving home. The data is then made available to the treating physician or responsible health authority on a clearly structured dashboard. The goal is to guarantee the continuous monitoring of each patient’s condition, making it possible to intervene immediately should that condition drastically deteriorate.
Background
Keeping in touch with people who are in quarantine due to a potential COVID-19 infection is a major challenge for health authorities and doctors alike. As things stand, health authorities are spending a great deal of time and manpower phoning patients to ask about their vital signs. Acute deteriorations in condition are being detected at a late stage, which delays patient admission and in the worst-case scenario can even exacerbate the progression of the illness.