Online medical visits, fingerprint scanning, face recognition … are the technology applications of the 4.0 industry at many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City to control and prevent the COVID-19 epidemic.
Family members visit patients online at Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital Visiting relatives through the screen His mother TVH (70 years old, living in Ho Chi Minh City) unfortunately slipped and fell, causing a broken hip and was taken to the Hospital of University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City for emergency treatment. After performing hip replacement surgery, she had to stay under observation in the hospital for 2 weeks. Due to the epidemic, the hospital has a regulation that only one person can raise the disease. In order to take care of her in the best way, and at the same time have more time to deal with work, Mr. H. used the BV’s service of replacing relatives to take care of his mother. With this service, medical staff will help family members take care of patients. Meanwhile, family members of Mr. H. can still visit patients online via a computer screen located at the Hospital’s Medical Condition Explanation Room. Images of doctors, nurses directly treating and caring, and patients are integrated and transmitted online. Through the screen, relatives can listen to doctors explain their medical conditions and chat online with their loved ones. “The online patient visit service is applicable to intensive care units and critical illness wards in clinical departments (no caregivers) such as Neurology – Acute Stroke Intensive Care Unit, Respiratory Department, etc. – Prevention of Severe Diseases, Department of Interventional Cardiology – Department of Cardiovascular Resuscitation… Each department and unit will have a certain time frame to explain the disease status online to the patient’s family. With this form, the hospital not only ensures the regulation of not visiting patients, meeting the goals of epidemic prevention and control, and creating conditions for relatives to update the health status of their loved ones being treated,” said a representative of the hospital. In recent days, visitors at Cho Ray Hospital (HCMC) have had access to a new monitoring method, which is fingerprint scanning to better prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic. According to Cho Ray Hospital, the method of monitoring visitation activities done so far, including visiting cards and relatives’ shirts (yellow), has not helped the goal of thorough monitoring. The patient’s family members scan their fingerprints every time they enter and exit the hospital to ensure the correct person has previously registered. After the patient’s family member finished pressing the machine, the security guard always reminded everyone to wash their hands with prepared hand sanitizer. “In the context of the complicated development of the COVID-19 epidemic, the issue of preventing the spread of disease in the hospital is a priority. Therefore, we strive to be more modern in monitoring and management of visitation activities. The hospital side hopes that patients and relatives will share this effort and join hands to make COVID-19 prevention activities more effective”, said Dr. BS Nguyen Tri Thuc, Director of Cho Ray Hospital. . Identification by “click, touch” Meanwhile, in order to monitor COVID-19 disease prevention and control activities, Nguyen Trai Hospital collaborated with an information technology unit to build a software “stay management of sick breeders” and put it into use since May. April 2021. Accordingly, after the medical declaration at the gate, the patient when coming to the treatment departments will make a second declaration and present their citizen identification, provide a phone number, take a photo… Then the staff enters the software and Print “Patient card” with patient name, name of patient, treatment department, disease prevention, registration date and registration code. During monitoring, the guard only needs to enter the registration code into the software installed in the mobile phone, all information and images of the patient appear on the screen. The information matches, the new breeder can enter the department. Similarly, Children’s Hospital 2 also applies facial recognition of children’s relatives before entering the child care department. Dr. Le Thi Minh Hong, Deputy Director of Children’s Hospital 2, said that controlling sick people with their faces helps children’s relatives as well as medical staff to minimize COVID-19 infection. This application also contributes to the security management of the hospital, because crooks do not have the opportunity to infiltrate inside through normal feeding cards as before. Assoc. Prof. TS.BS Tang Chi Thuong, Deputy Director of the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City, said that the city’s health sector encourages hospitals in the area to implement information technology applications in management. The purpose is to improve the quality of health care and ensure the safety of patients and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Minh Hong added that the hospital currently has 777 pediatric patients, each patient is only allowed to take care of one family member directly. Since having the facial recognition code of the patient, the number of people at the hospital has been strictly controlled. If the sick person needs to rest, the hospital will support the registration of facial recognition for another relative to replace. According to hospitals, the patient identification and management software updates the time every day, so unfortunately there is a case of SARS-CoV-2 infection entering the hospital, it will trace the relevant people very quickly and accurately with just a few clicks. the “click, swipe”. This helps health authorities to localize and promptly handle and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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