A U.S.-based children’s hospital and software solutions company are teaming up to implement technologies focused on enhancing maternal and child care in Africa.
Texas Children’s Hospital collaborated with PeriGen Inc., a perinatal software solution company, Maternal and Fetal Health Program launched In Malawi, Africa.
America’s own Poor maternal health records Matt Sappern, the chief executive of Cary, North Carolina, said these conditions pale in comparison to what is happening in developing countries. Modern gene, In an email.
He said that in Malawi, 400 maternal deaths occur for every 100,000 live births, and Malawi will lose one baby for every 50 babies born.
To help fight these bad results, Texas Women’s and Children’s Hall And PeriGen are deploying PeriWatch Vigilance automatic early warning system and clinical decision support tool at Area 25 Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. The hospital reports more than 7,000 births per year, which is similar to the number of Texas Women and Children’s Halls.
“PeriWatch Vigilance can track important information about hundreds of patients at once, across multiple hospital sites,” Sappern said. “It uses artificial intelligence and other analytical technologies to continuously monitor the vital signs of pregnant women, fetal heart rate, contractions and the progress of delivery, and provide results in graphical form and percentiles. Thanks to this continuous monitoring, it can detect Abnormal situation and immediately notify the clinician.”
He explained that second-hand and third-hand fetal monitors, some of which were obtained from eBay, will be connected to the bedside of patients in Malawi. Using basic network technology available locally in the country, fetal and maternal data will be captured at the bedside and transmitted to a server running PeriGen artificial intelligence analysis in Houston. The results of the assessment will be sent back to the bedside in Malawi within a few seconds.
Dr. Jeff Wilkinson, vice chairman of Global Women’s Health at Texas Children’s Hospital, said in an email that the deployment of the system in Malawi is the first implementation of the technology on the African continent. The goal is to eliminate preventable stillbirths, neonatal morbidity and mortality in resource-poor environments.
“Despite many interventions to reduce the stillbirth rate and early neonatal mortality, these tragic events are still unacceptably high. [in Malawi],” Wilkinson said. “Imagine if in the United States, 3% of babies cannot survive before and after birth. The public and society will strongly protest, which is completely understandable. “
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