How Technology Is Helping in the Fight Against Coronavirus -Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Drones and Robots?

 

    Source: IEEE Spectrum

In a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it found that out of the 138 patients, 57 (41.3%) were presumed to have been infected in Zhongnan Hospital (located in Wuhan, China) including 17 patients (12.3%) who were already hospitalized for other reasons and 40 health care workers (29%). Download the report.

More than half of the initial infections that happened inside this hospital appear to have been spread within the hospital itself. Almost one-third of the patients are health care workers infected in the hospital, highlighting the difficulties of remaining safe while providing treatment to patients.

With a shortage of doctors and health care workers, it is becoming even more important to protect them from getting infected with the Coronavirus. The fewer people who are in contact with infected patients, the better. If it’s not essential for certain supporting staff to be in the patient areas, it’s best for them to avoid it.

Instead of having health care workers interacting directly with people suspected of having the virus, many of the tasks such as delivering food and medicine and disinfecting rooms can be delegated to robots. Both China’s national health commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported that the infection can spread from person-to-person, the use of the robot will minimize the exposure of medical staff to the infected patients. Read More...