Periodic Reporting for period 2 - NIGHTINGALE (Connecting Patients and Carers using wearable sensor technology)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2017-07-01 al 2021-09-30
The Covid-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated the need for systems that allow patients to stay at home longer and postpone hospital admission, and/or to decrease the duration of hospital admission by allowing a safe early discharge home. The socio-economic impact of wide implementation of such technology is immense, as it will redefine the concept of hospital care and alter indications for admission. Nonetheless, there are remaining technical and scientific challenges; continuous measurement of blood oxygen saturation and blood pressure requires a valid ‘pulse plethysmogram’, an optical technique that is very sensitive to patient motion. Finally, the creation of our envisioned self-learning high-level clinical decision support system requires the generation of large data sets from thousands of patients, each wearing the wireless monitoring system during their period of illness, as well as prospective randomized trials to determine the effects on patient outcomes.