HEALTH: Ekiti to partner SignalADoc on Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Viral Signs Monitoring in Ekiti Hospitals.

By Wale Obelewaji

The Ekiti State Government, has commenced the pilot study of SignalADoc Artificial Intelligence- Enabled Vital Signs Monitoring in the State.

According to the State Commissioner for Health and Human services, Dr Oyebanji Filani, the pilot study was to hold at the three Specialist Hospitals in Ekiti State  in collaboration with SignalADoc.

Dr Filani noted that the health organization would deploy an Artificial Intelligence- Enabled Application to measure vital signs such as  blood pressure, oxygen saturation, heart rate, respiratory rate, mental stress level and heart rate variability.

He noted with the application, that health workers could read vital signs using phone cameras and get the results instantly. The Study, he mentioned would allow us determine if there are any variations in the readings observed between traditional means of collecting these data and the AI application. The goal is to observe readings in 2,000 patients over the next 1 month and assess the accuracy of results.

In his presentation, the founder and CEO of  SignalADoc Osagie Omokaro explained that they are privately owned organization that leverage on artificial intelligence to transform health and wellness.

Mr Omokaro stated that studies have shown that about 80million Nigerians are living with hypertension while 26.7million Nigerians are currently receiving high blood pressure treatment, saying that their vital Signal Monitor would allow users especially those with elevated blood pressure or other health conditions that contributes to high B.P. to check and monitor their blood pressure and other vital signs.

He added the the VSM application will also allow users to share their results with their doctors and cardiologists to monitor elevated high blood pressure over a period of time rather than taking only occasional blood pressure readings they visit hospitals.

The Manager Growth, SignalADoc Mrs Nancy Udeh said self monitoring could help one feel more motivated to control blood pressure with improved diet, physical activities and medication use, seeing as hypertension which she noted remains a deadly and prevailing ailment in Nigeria