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New tech gives women prenatal care at home
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A local maternity hospital is wiring itself into the future.
Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital is adopting smart technology that will allow pregnant women to get checked out by doctors without having to leave home.
Wearable devices and other in-home equipment will allow doctors to monitor their weight, urine, blood pressure and the fetus’s heartbeat by accessing a database linked with the woman’s home, said Dr Duan Tao, hospital president, yesterday.
“Regular prenatal checks focus mainly on these four things, but pregnant women have to go all the way to a hospital and wait in a long queue,” Duan said. “So we want to allow pregnant women to have their data checked at home, and they can have these things checked more frequently instead of waiting for a reserved prenatal check.”
For example, using an intelligent stool, they will be able to urinate directly onto a special piece of paper at home instead of going to a hospital to give a sample.
“The results are sent to the database, saving women much trouble,” Duan said.
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