Wearable real-time monitoring system for COVID positive hospitalized patients in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Belgium - Germany - The Netherlands Euregio Meuse-Rhin / Euregio Maas-Rijn / Euregio Maas-Rhein

Date of latest update: 2023-03-07

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Description (EN):

Challenges addressed. During the first COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, hospitals faced an acute demand for (ICU) beds and a high workload for personnel under difficult circumstances. The disease proved to be unpredictable and heterogeneous in its expression and course, and to require a long hospital stay. COVID-19 patients typically deteriorate very rapidly, leaving little time to initiate (oxygen) therapy, and prepare patients and relatives for a potential ICU admission. Care professionals reported they could not rely on clinical signs in predicting deterioration and making medical decisions. General nursing wards are not equipped for advanced monitoring; standard of care consists of intermittent manual measurement of vital signs only 1-3 times a day. However, continuous measurement is crucial for early detection of deterioration and minimizes undesirable physical contact. In particular, respiratory rate (RR), oxygen saturation (SpO2), heart rate (HR), and variability (HRV) are identified as important parameters in COVID- 19. Anticipating a potential second COVID-19 outbreak, decision support for timely escalation to medium or intensive care is urgently needed. The need for in-hospital continuous vital signs monitoring was already addressed in the ongoing Interreg EMR project wearIT4health, in which a prototype of a decision support system at technology readiness level (TRL) 5 was developed and is currently tested in hospitals. It consists of: 1. A wearable continuous monitoring device measuring: ECG and PPG (to determine HR(V), RR, SpO2, blood pressure), activity & temperature. 2. Algorithms that, based on these parameters, estimate Early Warning Scores (EWS) to support care professionals in daily practice. 3. A monitoring platform to integrate the device parameters into hospital IT systems to be viewed and used by care professionals. Main objectives. State of the art systems lack either the necessary TRL level, parameters, accuracy, continuous measurement, seamless integration into hospital IT systems and/or warning scores for COVID-19 patients. Therefore, the wearIT4health partners aim to optimize their system for COVID-19 patients specifically and perform clinical pilot testing at TRL6/7. Main activities. 1. Optimization of the wearIT4health monitoring device: improving accuracy and reliability of the parameters SpO2 and RR, relevant to overcome specific COVID-19 patient couching and sneezing artefacts 2. Development of algorithms for monitoring and predicting COVID-19 Warning Scores (CWS), which will take into account COVID-19 patient specific conditions. 3. Integration of additional monitoring devices and the CWS algorithms into the monitoring platform. Due to new insights into COVID-19, additional parameters may become relevant during the course of the project. Also, CWS algorithms and security featues will be further integrated into the platform to increase efficiency of daily care and security. 4. Clinical pilot testing to assess the functionality, usability, validity and accuracy of the entire monitoring system at general wards in Belgian and Dutch hospitals. Main expected results. Anticipating a potential 2nd COVID-19 outbreak, the result of the project will be an optimized monitoring system with an emphasis on the monitoring of COVID-19 patients and an increased TRL level for clinical pilot testing. A higher TRL level shortens the time line towards final production and implementation of the system by interreg EMR industrial partners. By using the system, hospitals will be able to optimize care for COVID-19 patients with minimum physical contact, thereby lowering workload and capacity problems. Many citizens, specifically patients and their relatives, and also care professionals will benefit from this optimization. Added value of cooperation. The partners are complementary in: coordination (ITF ULiège), clinical care/implementation (CHU of Liège, ZOL, MUMC+) and technological development (Microsys ULiège, KULeuven, UHasselt, UM). The partners worked together successfully in the wearIT4Health project, the basis for an efficient and effective execution of the project within the limits on funding and time. The technological partners have expertise to optimize the monitoring device and work together with hospitals for intermediate tests and end-user feedback. The 3 EMR region hospitals provide patient data to KULeuven to develop the CWS algorithms. Development of the monitoring platform is led by the IT department of the CHU of Liège together with the other hospital IT departments, required for a seamless implementation of the system in the hospitals, and technological partners for the integration of additional devices, the CWS algorithms and security features. The hospitals together will test the system on patients in 3 EMR regions.

Achievements (EN):

"RESULTS AND DELIVERABLES: 3 main results: 1. 9 opimized prototypes delivered to hospitals: Imroving of the measurement reliability of the most critical parameters related to the COVID-19 patients an dallowing teh start of the clinical study. 2. Developing machine learning predicitve models: Prediction performance of teh main vital signs (heart rate, respiration rate and oxygen saturation). 3. 45 patients enrolled in the clinical study: Enrolling of ill COVID-19 patients in a multicentric, international prospective study of which the results are promising and the monitoing system was well received by both patients and caregivers. Key milestones: 01/10/2020: Start of the project. 01/04/2021: Relevant retrospective COVID data collected fromthe hospitals to allow the development of algorithms for COVID-19 warning scores and their integration into the monitoringplatform. 01/08/2021: New optimized prototypes ready and start of theclinical multicentric pilot testing. 30/09/2021: End of the project"

Website: http://www.interregemr.eu/

Expected Outputs (EN): Not applicable for COVID call

Thematic information

Health and social services

Specific Objective: Increase the percentage of SMEs that introduces innovations

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Université de Liège

Department: Interface Entreprises (ITF) Microsys

Address: Place du 20-Août 7, 4000 Liège, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.uliege.be/

Total budget: EUR 1 076 230.94

ERDF budget: EUR 968 607.85

Universiteit Maastricht

Name: Universiteit Maastricht

Department: Department of Instrument Development, Engineering & Evaluation (IDEE), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML)

Address: Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum + / academisch ziekenhuis Maastricht

Name: Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum + / academisch ziekenhuis Maastricht

Department: Division of Patient and Care

Address: P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mumc.nl

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Name: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Department: 1. M3-BIORES - Division Animal and Human Health Engineering 2. eMedia Technology Cluster Electrical Engineering (ESAT) 3. Embedded Systems & Security (ES&S), Campus Diepenbeek ( Provincie Limburg BE)

Address: Oude Markt 13, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kuleuven.be

Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg

Name: Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg

Department: Future Health

Address: Schiepse Bos 6, 3600 Genk, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.zol.be

Universiteit Hasselt

Name: Universiteit Hasselt

Department: -Institute for materials research (IMO-IMOMEC) -Mobile Health Unit (MHU)

Address: Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uhasselt.be

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège

Name: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège

Department: Gestion du Système d’Information (GSI)

Address: rue de l'Hôpital 1, 4000 Liège, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.chuliege.be

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Project name (EN): Wearable real-time monitoring system for COVID positive hospitalized patients in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine

Project acronym: wearIT4COVID

Project start date: 2020-10-01

Project end date: 2021-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 076 230.94

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 968 607.85

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 968 607.85.

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Public Report wearIT4COVID

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interregemr.eu/

Publication date: 2023-10-04

Document date: 2021-09-30

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Belgium - Germany - The Netherlands Euregio Meuse-Rhin / Euregio Maas-Rijn / Euregio Maas-Rhein

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Wearable real-time monitoring system for COVID positive hospitalized patients in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine

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