Employees of Lviv Polytechnic National University have developed a mobile application HealthLung for automatic and remote transmission of data on patients’ blood oxygen levels.
The developer, author of the idea and project manager is Anatolii Melnyk, Head of the Department of Electronic Computing Machines, the Institute of Computer Technologies, Automation and Metrology. He says that Lviv Polytechnic received funding from the Francophone University Agency (AUF), which supports developments related to the coronavirus treatment. The grant provided only for the purchase of equipment, therefore the project was carried out free of charge.
– I came up with the idea to make such a system that would transmit information about the condition of a person, lungs, first of all, to the doctor automatically, without patient’s participation. I saw that sometimes they are simply not able to send data, says Anatolii Melnyk.
In addition to heart rate monitors and watches, the purchase of computers was planned, but the tender did not take place, so the application was created on home computers. Anatolii Melnyk worked with a team of students and postgraduate students who agreed to take part in the project. The equipment has been tested on themselves. Now the work on the application is almost finished, and it will be presented soon.
The application will be free of charge. It was presented to the relevant institutions: the Kyiv State Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety, doctor’ concilium and the management of CU ENT «Pulmonology Lviv Regional Diagnostic Center». In both cases, doctors responded favorably to the application, which can be used not only for patients with coronavirus.