Philips Shows Off Revolutionary ‘Contactless’ Vitals Monitoring Camera [VIDEO]

Philips has carved a name for itself in the consumer electronics market and now it may find itself a pertinent one in the healthcare industry. This is if its new camera that can monitor patient vital signs from affair proves to be revolutionary as claimed.

With the evolving state of healthcare services, everyone is familiar with the drill where doctors and nurses need to take vitals of patients on occasion. That would require them to be near the patient to record the proper readings.

But the new innovation from Philips may soon change all that with its new camera. The new Philips camera is capable of a patient’s absolute oxygen saturation of arterial blood (SpO2) from across the room. Such was published via this month’s issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

How does it work?

The Philips camera can reportedly do the trick when the patient is in frame. From afar, the camera can monitor a patient’s pulse by measuring light reflected off their forehead. Aside from that, it can also measure a patient’s breathing rate also, done through the monitoring of body movements unseen to the human eye.

Clinics and hospitals follow a standard protocol when it comes to monitoring heart rate, arterial blood oxygenation, respiration rate, and activity of patients to help determine health-related issues and concerns they complain about.

The new method should do away with the traditional method of strapping devices to the body. Further, the new healthcare innovation may address an ongoing issue tied up with the strapped contact sensors such as newborn babies.

“Vital signs monitoring is crucial across all types of care settings, but for patient populations with specific conditions, managing their care in a less intrusive way is critical in order to avoid unnecessary distress,” Philips Patient Care & Monitoring Solutions CEO Carla Kriwet.

Philips’ contactless alternative can provide key advantages in such cases where skin damage among fragile patients is concerned, not to mention the freedom to select a more physiologically central location with a possible faster response rate.

This new breakthrough study from Philips holds an interesting twist in the healthcare sector, a new contactless monitoring solution that should help in delivering accurate measurement of key vital signs among patients.