Remote Patient Monitoring System (RPMS) Wins First Prize at COMPPEC 2010

It is a matter of great pride that a project funded by National ICT R&D Fund won the first prize, in the Research Category, at 9th All Pakistan Inter Colleges/Universities Computer Project Exhibition & Competition (COMPPEC 2010). COMPPEC is an annual event, hosted by Department of Computer Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (NUST), and is in its 10th year. The event provides a platform for the young and talented students to showcase their ingenuity in five different categories.

Remote Patient Monitoring System with Focus on Antenatal Care for Rural Population is being developed by nexGIN RC at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), as a reliable, efficient and easily deployable remote patient monitoring system that can play a centric role in providing basic health services to the remote village population of Pakistan at their door step.

The aim is to design a generic remote health care system with a focus on antenatal care, and use advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to develop a monitoring system that could enhance the quality of health care provided by the lady health workers. The proposed system will be able to gather the physiological data, transmit it, record it, find any abnormality and then assist the doctor in the decision making process. The lady health worker is required to attach the data gathering module to the patient’s body using wearable a strap, provided with the module. The module (consisting of medical sensors) will record the patient’s data and forward it to the PDA through a wired channel (e.g. USB or serial port). The PDA will contain an application for local monitoring of patient’s data that would display the current readings. When all the readings have been taken, the PDA will connect to a remote server and transfer the data to it. The remote server will process the data, invoke the Clinical Decision Support System to perform analysis on the data, invoke the Electronic Medical Record service to record the readings in the patient’s history and provide feedback to the PDA screen notifying the decision given by the Clinical Decision Support System.

National ICT R&D Fund congratulates the team of nexGin RC for yet again winning accolades for their institution and for National ICT R&D Fund as a facilitator of high quality research within the domains of ICTs.