Health Care In Poor Countries Research Articles

Maternal HealthCare Using IoT-Based Integrated Medical Device: Bangladesh Perspective

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to develop a low-cost integrated medical device. This device will help investigate the risk levels of maternal patients as well will reduce the cost involved in medical diagnosis for poor countries like Bangladesh, where maternal healthcare is a great concern.
 Methodology: We proposed and developed an integrated medical device that includes all possible sensors to collect raw data from maternal patients. As soon as the data is collected it will be sent to the cloud for processing. In the cloud, there are a set of algorithms (software) for processing raw data received from the device. After processing and analyzing our system will automatically identify the risk levels of those patients. The software is developed in open source code so that in the future it can be updated by researchers.
 Results: We developed the system and practically collected raw data from patients and uploaded those data to our cloud system. In the cloud, it was processed and the resultant data were presented in the form of graphs. From these graphs, the risk levels were identified.
 Limitations: The proposed system is developed for maternal patients only. This system needs to be authorized by the health regulatory authority. To make it cost-effective some expensive sensors were not used.
 Contribution: The main contribution of this study is to minimize the cost involved in maternal healthcare in poor countries like Bangladesh. This, in turn, controls the death of mother and child by improving maternal healthcare facilities.

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