Remote training for Ventilator Operators

Demand for the ventilator operators, medical staff, technician training, remote treatment, ambulance expert support and remote inspections has escalated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this new normal, with Remotely, all has become possible and convenient.

Deploying a real-time intuitive solution using smartphones to protect & save citizens' lives when health and safety restrictions challenge. In these difficult times of Covid19, Remotely is becoming the need of the hour. Using Remotely we're providing innovative, precise, and interactive clinical support to remote-first patients. It allows doctors to track patient progress, monitor staff, and do hospital inspections remotely.

Remotely is a user-friendly, real-time visual assistance that offers hospitals, administration, and government reliable smart, intuitive visual guidance to skill/up skill ventilator operators, medical staff, technicians and ambulance experts remotely. 

Our solution will impact 1255786 Doctors, 3070000 Medical Operators, 3704099 Patients, Government, Armed Forces and will protect and save Civilians lives.

At present, in India, we have in total of 741 districts. As per our recent survey, we found many of them with having no doctors. Not only just doctors but there also has a shortage of technicians (who know about medical gas pipeline systems), ventilator operators, and experts for ambulance support.
Most of the districts have no control room and the few who have are running with 2 unskilled workers, they provide telephonic support only and are failing to help citizens and doctors. With having no ventilator operators, technicians present in 741 districts, the lives of billions are in danger.

Challenges:

• Lack of Expertise
• Lack of Skilled staff/ Operators
• Absence of Remote Inspection
• Low Motivation
• Complex training/ teaching process
• Lack of Physical Training Centers

Remotely is a user-friendly, real-time visual assistance that offers hospitals, administration, and government a reliable smart, intuitive visual guidance to skill/up skill ventilator operators, medical staff, technicians and ambulance experts remotely. It allows doctors to track patient progress, monitor staff and do hospitals inspections remotely.

Benefits:

• Instantaneous training of Ventilator Operators, Technicians, Medical Professionals, Assistants, Fresh Graduate Nurses & PG students.
• Provides real-time technical support on medical equipment usage
• Allows staff to gives remote medical care and do patient treatment
• Provides real-time expert support for Ventilator & Oxygen Concentrator
• Increase ease of learning and makes knowledge transfer fast, effective and efficient
• Provides remote collaboration & support for Installation, Commissioning and Maintenance of Oxygen Plant and Medical Gas Pipeline System
• Allows doctors to manage hospitals and do remote Inspections in real-time
• Reduced travel time
• Shorter response times
• Instant access and connect to national and international experts
• Reduce Ventilator, Medical Equipment’s and Operational downtime
• Provides data driven records to improve activities and compliance
• Remotely all-in-one feature creates remote command and control center, which allows to manage training, operations, installation, commissioning, capacity building, utility management, inspection, technical support, ambulance support and medical treatment all at once.

Beneficiaries:

• Hospitals: In getting remote doctors support, in training operators and staff, in ambulance support and in remote treatment for patients in home isolation.
• Doctors: To provide remote medical care for patients from home.
• Chief Health Officer/ Civil Surgeon: In-hospital & infrastructure management (tracking beds and oxygen concentrator availability), planning and strategy development, training doctors and staff, control room coordination and hospital and facility inspection).
• District Magistrate: In control and command center for management, monitoring and quick assistance.
• Hospital Staff: In equipment installation and maintenance, ventilator operation and troubleshooting and patient treatment both in hospital and at home.
• Government: In planning and strategy development, to monitor and manage activities.
• Patients using oxygen concentrator at home or in-home isolation: To get remote treatment from home and in getting real-time information regarding beds, oxygen concentrator and covid/medical kits.

Demand for the ventilator operators, medical staff, technician training, remote treatment, ambulance expert support and remote inspections has escalated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this new normal, augmented reality (AR)-enabled real-time intuitive solution is the only option for India. 

Deploying a real-time intuitive solution using smartphones to protect & save citizens' lives when health and safety restrictions challenge. In these difficult times of Covid19, Remotely is becoming the need of the hour. Using Remotely we're providing innovative, precise, and interactive clinical support to remote-first patients. It allows doctors to track patient progress, monitor staff, and do hospital inspections remotely.

We have validated and tested our product with more than 500 users. Users were able to use it very smoothly and perfectly even with the low internet connectivity in rural villages. 

Nasreen, Doctor from Andhra Pradesh said "Remotely helped us in providing guidance instantly to rural hospitals where there is an absence of ventilator operators and technicians. Remotely works smoothly without any interruption even with low internet connectivity. It bridges mobility & infrastructure gaps."

Also, we got 2 industrial clients who started using our solution, and now we're collaborating with the Government of India to provide support to Small Clinics, Nursing Homes, Civilians, Doctors, Operators, Technicians, Medical Professionals, Patients in home isolation and Ambulance operators pan India. 

The Asia Live's brilliant article on Remotely! It talks about how it solves age-old problems. Read the full article here: https://theasialive.com/indigenously-developed-remotely-can-solve-age-old-problems

In these difficult times of Covid19, Remotely is becoming the need of the hour. Using Remotely we're providing innovative, precise, and interactive clinical support to remote-first patients. It allows doctors to track patient progress, monitor staff, and do hospital inspections remotely.

Remotely is a user-friendly, real-time visual assistance that offers hospitals, administration, and government a reliable smart, intuitive visual guidance to skill/up skill ventilator operators, medical staff, technicians and ambulance experts remotely. It allows doctors to track patient progress, monitor staff and do hospitals inspections remotely.

Remotely uses advanced Computer Vision with AI to track and live-streamed audio-video conferencing with advanced functionalities to assist technician, ventilator operators, medical equipment maintenance personnel and experts on ambulance. The process involves on-screen telestration, document sharing, camera zoom, screen captures, drawing, sticky notes and 3D annotations.

It requires the personnel located at the facility to possess an Android smart device with an in-built camera (smartphone, tablet, or smart glasses) on which they will download the “Remotely” (software application). Audio and video feeds are encrypted using the universal Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

It allows having multi-party communication (up to 8 participants) during the remote training, maintenance, treatment and inspection so that they may direct the personnel located at the facility to look at, move, focus or fix the particular equipment as necessary. Doctors, Experts, Trainers, Operators, Inspectors and Surveyors located anywhere in the world can remotely skill/ up skill, operate, treat, troubleshoot, visit and verify quality and integrity to fully comply with the standards.

Our solution will serve 1255786 Doctors, 3070000 Medical Operators, 3704099 Patients, Government, Armed Forces and will protect and save Civilians' lives in the next five years.

We will provide 10 licenses to each district and distribute in a way 1 will give to Civil Surgeon/ Chief Health Officer, 1 license to District Magistrate and remaining 8 licenses to a team (including 2 for the ventilator, 2 for the ambulance, 2 for medical gas pipeline system and 2 for patient care) in every district.

In one year, we will be serving 125578 Doctors, 307000 Medical Operators, 370409 patients in India.

Hospital visits take longer and the absence of operators and medical professionals increases the risks of accidents. Not to mention, the cost of travel and board is extremely high. Remotely eradicate the need for such inspections by enabling high-quality AR-enabled communication online. It helps ventilator operators and medical personnel eliminate mistakes and significantly increase uptime.

Through the dashboard Doctors can track progress in real-time.

We have 8 full-time staff 

We're an entire creative pool in one space. Our cross-disciplinary teams consist of UX and interactive designers, developers, and project managers who have successfully managed to balance the two-edged sword that is creativity and compatibility. We bring extensive experience and global exposure from 15 countries and 5 continents.

It is the belief of our organization that race, creed, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or gender do not devalue or depreciate a human. The key to unlocking the door of a developed nation is diversity, inclusion, and unity. With this in mind, our organization embraces and encourages the betterment of people from all walks of life. 

Our team members hail from different backgrounds and represent the interests of several communities. We strongly honor the relationship between innovation and implementation so that no one is left behind.

I believe that the Solve community will strengthen our capabilities to make this world a better place and change it for the better. During the program, I will get to connect with other leading community leaders so as to bring a change and provide global citizenship which would expose us to different perspectives and provide me an opportunity to learn from our fellow participants. The mentorship provided during the program would help me grow exponentially in this domain in a strategic and sustainable way.  

Over the last three years of my experience as a social entrepreneur, I have been seeking hands-on experience and mentoring from industry experts to solve problems and create an impact. This missing link can be fulfilled through this program. I would like to get advice and mentorship from those who have expertise in social enterprise operations in rural area settings and can help us grow in this domain in a strategic and sustainable way.   

We would like to partner with the one who believes in the egalitarian distribution of technology and aims to make it accessible to all by creating a self-reliant economy that is ready to face the future at MIT.