NCKU, Quanta launch new cloud solution for neonatal care
Tainan, Taiwan, May 21, 2013
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, has collaborated with Quanta Computer to launch a cloud solution expecting to provide neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) doctors and parents access to a live video stream that they can watch anywhere from mobile devises such as smartphones and tablets.
The cloud solution called “QOCA babyTM” is extending from the BabyCam project carried out by research collaboration between Quanta Research Institute and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), revealed Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers.
One extension of QOCA babyTM is a mobile patient monitoring unit installed in an ICU that enables real time audio/video interactions between physicians, patients and patients’ family members, according to Alex Huang, Senior Manager of Quanta Computer.
NCKU Hospital neonatologist Yuh-Jyh Lin is the first physician to use the devise, “QOCA babyTM via technology transmits not only the sound and image but the dedicate feelings and love toward new life.”
Dr. Lin applied QOCA babyTM to tend intensively to a 7-month premature baby who is diagnosed with intestinal perforation and needs emergency surgery. After the operation, thanks to QOCA babyTM, Dr. Lin is able to observe the baby by monitoring it on the screen of his tablet even when he is home.
“Doctors at NCKU Hospital not only care about patients but value the quality of life,” according to Dr. Huey-Jen Jenny Su, NCKU Executive Vice President who said that having the newborn needed intensive care, the family inevitably experience mixed feelings and NCKU Hospital is committed to provide patients heartfelt services and improve the health of society.
Huang said, “With telemedicine cloud solution, NICU doctors can keep track on the data and image of the newborns through mobile devises to get the real-time information which may improve the neonatal care and lower the possibilities of misjudgment.”
Additionally, QOCA babyTM may increase the interaction between the mother and her newborn. The mother is able to interact with the baby and the medical staff by mobile devises, which will facilitate the communication and ease the postpartum depression.
All neonatal physiological and biochemical monitoring data and images stored in the cloud database for computing and transmission, Huang added.
Quanta has collaborated with US’s Boston Children's Hospital and MIT to develop the use of mobile devise transmitting clear images, and assist the medical staff of the medical center to provide better neonatal care strategies for the ambulance crew.
To achieve high-resolution and real-time image transmission, a good cloud computing technology is a must, and the bandwidth of mobile devise is another problem to be tackled.
NCKU professors of Information Engineering, NICU doctors, and faculty from NCKU College of Medicine are impressed by the research result conducted by Quanta and hope to cooperation with Quanta, further developing the telemedicine cloud solution.
NCKU is one of the only two comprehensive universities in Taiwan equipped with College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Medicine and Hospital. NCKU has kept tight collaborated relationship with the industry for years.
Quanta Computer is the world's leading ODM manufacturer which enjoys high reputation over notebook computers, information and communication products by its prominent technology and quality.
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, has collaborated with Quanta Computer to launch a cloud solution expecting to provide neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) doctors and parents access to a live video stream that they can watch anywhere from mobile devises such as smartphones and tablets.
The cloud solution called “QOCA babyTM” is extending from the BabyCam project carried out by research collaboration between Quanta Research Institute and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), revealed Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers.
One extension of QOCA babyTM is a mobile patient monitoring unit installed in an ICU that enables real time audio/video interactions between physicians, patients and patients’ family members, according to Alex Huang, Senior Manager of Quanta Computer.
NCKU Hospital neonatologist Yuh-Jyh Lin is the first physician to use the devise, “QOCA babyTM via technology transmits not only the sound and image but the dedicate feelings and love toward new life.”
Dr. Lin applied QOCA babyTM to tend intensively to a 7-month premature baby who is diagnosed with intestinal perforation and needs emergency surgery. After the operation, thanks to QOCA babyTM, Dr. Lin is able to observe the baby by monitoring it on the screen of his tablet even when he is home.
“Doctors at NCKU Hospital not only care about patients but value the quality of life,” according to Dr. Huey-Jen Jenny Su, NCKU Executive Vice President who said that having the newborn needed intensive care, the family inevitably experience mixed feelings and NCKU Hospital is committed to provide patients heartfelt services and improve the health of society.
Huang said, “With telemedicine cloud solution, NICU doctors can keep track on the data and image of the newborns through mobile devises to get the real-time information which may improve the neonatal care and lower the possibilities of misjudgment.”
Additionally, QOCA babyTM may increase the interaction between the mother and her newborn. The mother is able to interact with the baby and the medical staff by mobile devises, which will facilitate the communication and ease the postpartum depression.
All neonatal physiological and biochemical monitoring data and images stored in the cloud database for computing and transmission, Huang added.
Quanta has collaborated with US’s Boston Children's Hospital and MIT to develop the use of mobile devise transmitting clear images, and assist the medical staff of the medical center to provide better neonatal care strategies for the ambulance crew.
To achieve high-resolution and real-time image transmission, a good cloud computing technology is a must, and the bandwidth of mobile devise is another problem to be tackled.
NCKU professors of Information Engineering, NICU doctors, and faculty from NCKU College of Medicine are impressed by the research result conducted by Quanta and hope to cooperation with Quanta, further developing the telemedicine cloud solution.
NCKU is one of the only two comprehensive universities in Taiwan equipped with College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Medicine and Hospital. NCKU has kept tight collaborated relationship with the industry for years.
Quanta Computer is the world's leading ODM manufacturer which enjoys high reputation over notebook computers, information and communication products by its prominent technology and quality.
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Date:
2013-05-21
