COVID-19 Remote Patient Monitoring: Social Impact of AI

A primary indicator of success in the fight against COVID-19 is avoiding stress on critical care infrastructure and services (CCIS). However, CCIS will likely remain stressed until sustained herd immunity is built, either in due course or by vaccination on mass scale. There are also secondary considerations for success: mitigating economic damage; curbing the spread of misinformation, improving morale, and preserving a sense of control; building global trust for diplomacy, trade and travel; and restoring reliability and normalcy to day-to-day life, among others. We envision technology plays a pivotal role. Here, we focus on the effective use of readily available technology to improve the primary and secondary success criteria for the fight against SARS-CoV-2. In a multifaceted technology approach, in this Part I, we start with effective technology use for remote patient monitoring (RPM) of COVID-19 with the following objectives: 1. Deploying readily available technology for continuous real-time remote monitoring of patient vitals with the help of biosensors on a large scale.