Dramatic contexts such as those related to earthquakes, floods, mudslides or terrorist attacks put medical personnel involved in relief efforts in highly complex situations. That is why for more than ten years IN MM (an acronym of the Latin In manibus meis),
founded by Sabrina Menghini,è active in providing civilian, health and military facilities with highly technological information systems.
The purpose è to significantly improve the management and communication of data in rescue procedures, patient transport and continuous monitoring of patients. All of this, as customer service manager Ascanio Ciriaci recalls, to ensure support for operators engaged in high-risk situations, and where the number of patients to be rescued exceeds the threshold beyond which they can be effectively cared for.
The software developed detects movement and health status of patients during major disasters
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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The main focus of IN MM, as mentioned, lies in the’design and preparation of information systems dedicated to emergency situations, particularly in the pre-hospital setting. So a’focus on everything that happens to the injured individual before he or she arrives at health facilities for treatment. The technologies developed by IN MM engineers, in collaboration with external professionals along with universities and research institutes
for system validation, are designed especially for maxi emergency contexts. Included in the definition are those disastersà and major events that are often recounted in the news, and in which medical and military rescue personnel have to assist so many people in a short time,
often with limited means at their disposal. Through software intended both within a central server operated by the rescue agency, but also
as real applications for smartphones and PCs, tracking of subjects from the place of the’event to the’hospital takes place.
CODES FOR DETECTION
Detection is first and foremost about the movement of patients between different facilities, just think of the field clinics quickly arranged in disaster areas. Here è technological support that brings order to the management of flows of people to be treated is essential. For this, IN MM systems are based on the’assignment of unique codes for each patient, thanks to which a record is kept of the various steps faced in the emergency situation. This is then complemented by the’use of other types of codes, with the classic progressive coloring to signal the severity of the individual clinical picture, thus directing health workers in the’approach to be taken.
NEXT DEVELOPMENTS
Also in response to the health challenge of the Covid-19 virus IN MM has developed Genus Kit, an innovative platform for remote monitoring of patients' vital parameters. A high-tech solution to support the active of physicians engaged in the current emergency, who will thus be able to adopt forms of remote control over the clinical status of patients, with less travel and waiting time.
