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TechnologyThere’s also a WA plan to use telehealth to monitor potential COVID-19 patients at home to re- duce pressure on the healthcare system and stop transmission.
Cisco,
Curtin University,
GP su- perclinic operator Health Integra,
ASX-listed ResApp,
Prospector Biomedical Laboratories
and In- teliCare Holdings are part of the consortium behind the project, under the banner of the proposed Indo Asia Centre for Digital Health Commercialisation.
The plan is to use mobile de- vices and wearables to track vital signs for patients, including heart rate, blood oxygen levels and breathing.It could also use geofencing to ensure people are quarantining.The team includes doctors, ep- idemiologists, academics and a data scientist, led by chief execu- tive Warren Harding.Rather than having potential patients visit clinics, doctors will analyse cases remotely, via video.A cheap, wearable device can then be delivered to the patient’s door, to be used in conjunction with a mobile phone.“We need to also tackle it in the community, to support the work of COVID clinics or emergency departments,” Mr Harding said.“It taps in to the capacity of Perth health providers in the community, and keeps [patients] in the home.“When facing an extraordinary challenge like COVID-19, you won’t beat it by doing ordinary things.“We’re going to have some new norms created.”Health Integra director Amitha Preetham said a good example of how the system would work would be if a patient who returned from overseas was self-quaran- tining for 14 days and developed low-level symptoms.“There’s a risk of transmissionto other people in the GP waiting room, and many other patients will be visiting the doctor because they have other conditions such as diabetes,” Ms Preetham said.That would help flatten the curve of infections, easing front- line capacity, and reduce the need for protective equipment.The telehealth system would also be very low cost, using exist- ing patient mobile phones, public logistics for pharmaceutical deliv- eries, and cheap wearables.Ms Preetham said it would be easy for people to use.Over time, data will be collected and used to feed machine learn- ing programs that will be trained to detect problems with patients early by picking up changes in vi- tal signs.It comes after the federal gov- ernment announced a big expan- sion of telehealth in late March to ease pressure on frontline health clinics and reduce potential for transmission.About $100 million was allocat- ed to fund a new Medicare service for people in home isolation or quarantine over video and phone applications such as Skype.But the Indo Asia Centre for Digital Health Commercialisation plan goes further by integrating wearables and machine learning.The US and other countries are going in the same direction.The Indo Asia Centre team is seeking about $500,000 in fed- eral funding to get the project off the ground within weeks, with the state government offering sup- port for the concept.There has also been interest from resources companies to help support healthcare for fly-in, fly-out workers.Longer term, the technology could be applied to aged care, or to monitor patients with chronic diseases and potentially exported if Australia gets in early to develop it, the centre said.InteliCare has a prospectus in the market to raise $5.5 million for telehealth and artificial intelli- gence services in aged care. When facing an extraordinary challenge like COVID-19, you won’t beat it by doing ordinary things - Warren Harding

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