Development of a Robot Roving Doctor (RoviDoc): A Telemedicine for Isolated Covid-19 Patients in the Philippines

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Jayson M. Victoriano, Reynaldo S. Naguit, Richard Albert C. Salivio

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RoviDoc will be used to fight the covid-19 pandemic and will deploy in a different Quarantine facility in the Provicne of Bulacan, The Philippines to help health workers minimize exposure. Using the portability and flexibility of a Remote-Controlled Vehicle (RCV) which aims to provide payloads such as prescribed medicine kits, for patients undergoing treatment, mounted tablet with a built-in camera, audio, microphone with touch-screen application to be used by physician and health workers in managing and monitoring patients with covid-19 conditions remotely via Bluetooth. RoviDoc will also facilitate collecting the Body Temperature, Pulse Rate, Oxygen Level-Oximeter (spO2) of the patient as well misting of disinfectant automatically, as a result the project got a weighted mean of


4.88 which is excellent acceptability based on the evaluation.

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