Novel IoT-Based E-Health System: Hospital Management, Telemedicine and Quarantine Management for COVID-19

Patients commonly visit to hospitals for monitoring and treatment of their chronic diseases especially in COVID-19 epidemic ultimately increases the patients and hospitals' burden. The foremost advancement with respect to examining a patient's critical condition in such pandemic is remote patient monitoring and providing treatment via telemedicine. The main objective of this paper is to provide a novel Internet of Things (IoT) based system for continuous remote monitoring of patients' location, health statistics related to COVID-19 infection, telemedication and maintaining E-health record database. The system monitors oxygen levels and heart-rate signals using MAX30100 (Heart Rate and Pulse Oximeter sensor) and temperature via LM-35 module interfaced with the ESP8266 WI-FI module for web-monitoring. The healthcare sector involving a web server database controlled by cPanel will be used by consultants to have patients' data remotely for telemedicine. Besides, the database is also used as an electronic health record for hospital management system to maintain E-files and history of patients' complications. Moreover, the device monitors the real time location of infected patients using GPS and alerts the medical officials if the patients breach the quarantine norms. The real time location of infected patients also enables the medical authorities to investigate about the total number of COVID-19 cases in any particular area. However, the android application is developed for patients' family/relatives so that they can also monitor the patient condition to take the necessary actions before the worst condition arises. The developed system is efficient in providing integrated services to assist healthcare officials, minimize cost, maintains security and upgrade disease diagnosis speed in less time.