Coronavirus: an AP-HP app for remote monitoring of patients

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Within the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux com Paris (AP-HP), the new Covidom application makes it possible to monitoring the state of health of people infected, or suspected of infection, by Covid-19.

With Covid-19, the whole challenge is to avoid saturation of hospitals due to an exponential growth of cases due to the strong contagion power of the disease and the weakness of sanitary means. This is why containment measures are not there to hinder the freedom of each other, but to allow everyone to be treated in the best possible conditions. To avoid the comings and goings in hospitals, the AP-HP and Nouveal e-health have launched an application for medical monitoring at health home of patients who do not require hospitalization.

Baptized Covidom, this free application, available on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, allows patients with (or suspected) of coronavirus, but without showing signs of seriousness, to benefit from remote monitoring at health home via medical questionnaires offered once or several times a day, in addition to containment measures. It should also be remembered that the health authorities estimate that approximately 80% of people contaminated by Covid-19 show no signs of seriousness and are only subjected – for the moment – to a fortnight's confinement .

Available for AP-HP patients only

Logically, not everyone can use the app as they please. The patient is registered on the platform by a doctor, and benefits from a unique username and password. Within the app, the patient is asked about his temperature level or about possible respiratory discomfort. In the event of alarming signs, it is specified that "The healthcare team is alerted and contacts the patient to possibly adapt the follow-up and treatment". The monitoring of patients included in Covidom is carried out from a medical telesurveillance center, active since March 12.

The app has been operational since March 9 and deployed in Bichat and Pitié-Salpêtrière hospitals, two benchmark healthcare facilities for Covid-19. The app is going to be “Used more widely, initially within the AP-HP”, specifies the press release.

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