A Novel Augmented Reality Integrated Platform for Real-Time Patient Health Assessment

Modern healthcare demands minute and timely observation of the patient's health condition, particularly in emergency situations, as time delay can pose a threat to patient safety. Presently, health parameters are evaluated based on human judgment at the time of admission to the hospital, which leads to a delay in critical decision-making. The challenge here is the limitations of the traditional systems in delivering fast, accurate, and comprehensive patient assessments. These challenges can be resolved through this study that proposes an innovative health monitoring system by incorporating IoT sensors along with Augmented Reality (AR) using the Unity 3D and the Vuforia Engine package. It constantly collects vital health information including temperature, glucose, blood oxygen saturation, and heart rate by utilizing loT sensors, which it further stores into a Firebase database to retrieve at optimal speed. The AR portion further extends this system as real-time data, through the usage of a heart model that the health professionals will project the said data, that could be scanned by the nurse with the usage of a QR-code interface, would enable assessment in an all-new, original approach for evaluating patients without affecting the response time. The integration of Unity 3D and Firebase makes medical responses very fast and accurate, which in turn reduces the challenge of delayed decision-making in emergency situations and leads to a better outcome of patients.