Ranasinghe, Anuradha and Reid, David (2023) 3D Remote Diagnosis and Monitoring in Virtual Wards. In: EAI MobiHealth 2023: 12th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, 29-30 November, 2023, Vila Real, Portugal. (Accepted for Publication)
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Abstract
This study presents a novel 3D medical examination method to monitor patients remotely. The NHS England recently proposed “virtual wards’ due to the backlog of patients care after the pandemic, the aim of this is that patients can receive the same care by remaining at home as they would expect by being in a physical hospital. However, the currently proposed technologies (usually webcams and tablets) lack the ability to perform remote 3D medical analysis; this means that valuable diagnostic information may be lost. To address this gap, we propose to create a test dummy by using an Intel (D405) depth camera to capture this important depth information. This could be used to better analyse tumours, skin diseases and lesions, blunt force trauma, deformations, bone fractures and breaks. The health expert would then be able to remotely see 3D images of the patients on a 3D screen (Nubia Pad 3D) and remotely touch the patient by using an in-house built wearable untethered multimodal fine grained haptic glove. To our knowledge, this is the first proposed and tested technology to examine and diagnose patients in 3D exploring the virtual ward concept. We believe that this approach will enhance, and therefore improve, remote diagnostic capability, and that this will reduce the qualitative gap between in-person and remote patient analysis.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Anuradha Dissanayake Mudiyanselage |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2023 11:57 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2023 11:57 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4080 |
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