TY - JOUR T1 - Remote Sensing of Vital Signs: A Wearable, Wireless “Band-Aid” Sensor With Personalized Analytics for Improved Ebola Patient Care and Worker Safety JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 516 LP - 519 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00189 VL - 3 IS - 3 AU - Steven R Steinhubl AU - Mark P Marriott AU - Stephan W Wegerich Y1 - 2015/09/10 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/3/3/516.abstract N2 - This wireless sensor technology, currently being field-tested in an Ebola Treatment Unit in Sierra Leone, monitors multiple vital signs continuously and remotely. When connected with enhanced analytics software, it can discern changes in patients’ status much more quickly and intelligently than conventional periodic monitoring, thus saving critical health care worker time and reducing exposure to pathogens.Continuous, remote monitoring of multiple vital signs in patients with Ebola, coupled with personalized data analytics, can warn health care workers of critical changes in patients’ status much earlier than with conventional intermittent monitoring—which typically occurs just every 8 hours—and without risking the safety of health care workers. This sophisticated technology, in turn, could lead to earlier initiation of lifesaving interventions, better health outcomes, and reduced risk of spreading the virus.A consortium of academic and industry partners, STAMP2 (which stands for Sensor Technology & Analytics to Monitor, Predict and Protect Ebola patients), has developed such a novel, wearable patient sensor—resembling a band-aid—that tracks and wirelessly transmits multiple vital signs to remote health care workers in non-red zone observation areas. The technology, which includes the MultiSense sensor coupled with state-of-the-art, real-time data analytical capabilities, called Personalized Physiology Analytics (PPA), sends patient-specific automated alerts of any important changes in the patient’s condition without requiring the health care worker to constantly monitor display screens.The technology was developed in response to … ER -