Health Monitoring Platform for Emergency Medicine: User Perspective and Implementation

Thailand demographic is expected to have superaged society with aged population more than 30% by 2035. With higher incidence of chronic diseases including cardiovascular and strokes in elderly, we expect to have higher rate of emergency cases that need emergency care. Emergency Medicine Act of B.E. 2008 has set the guidelines and strategy for emergency medicine nationwide and the National Emergency Medicine Committee las recently defined category, level, and authority of the operation units in 2019. Such plan aims to increase efficiency of emergency dispatch and hence increase survival numbers of the patients. Here, we propose the solution for Emergency Medicine, combining state-of-the-art Ambulance Operation Center, Genius Safely Ambulance with IoT platform, and smart wristband with application for health monitoring and patient location at real time. Use case of Ambulance Operation Center was demonstrated with 13 Wild Boars situation in Chiang Rai Province. First phase of smart wristband implementation in caregivers and care managers was also evaluated in terms of usability.