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Coronavirus disease represents a global public health concern. To minimize its damage is necessary to create technologies for the prevention and control of this emerging disease. However, there is still no equipment that can remotely monitor COVID-19 patients, regardless of where the patient is. Within the scope of the Internet of Things, this article presents the Virtual Hospital, a system for remote monitoring of patients with COVID-19. The device features biosensors that are configured to monitor the symptoms of COVID-19, taking into account the specification of the NEWS2 protocol, among them: temperature, heart rate, blood oxygenation, systolic pressure, level of consciousness, and respiratory rate. With the monitoring system, health professionals will continually monitor patients without the need for physical contact because any anomaly that may occur will cause the system to notify the person responsible for taking appropriate action immediately. We believe that, as a consequence, its use can decrease the number of critically ill patients in hospitals, reducing in-hospital mortality rates.
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Paixão-Cortes, V.S.M., Paixão-Cortes, W.R., Thomaz, D., de Siqueira Zanella, F., Ravazzolo, R.L., da Silva Laureano, G.L. (2021). Virtual Hospital: A System for Remote Monitoring of Patients with COVID-19. In: Latifi, S. (eds) ITNG 2021 18th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1346. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70416-2_51
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