Problems on maternal and child health services, especially newborn care are increasingly complex. The workload of health workers also experienced a significant increase. One of the support of the success of health services is the presence of modern and contemporary medical devices. For example, as in the treatment of newborns, usually the baby patients are placed in an infant warmer to warm the body temperature from the surrounding environment.
Infant Warmers which are sometimes used in monitoring the patient’s condition, health workers in this case, nurses must guard alternately and face to face with patients. But with the embedding of IoT technology (internet of things) can facilitate the work of health workers to be more effective and efficient only through gadgets. This has been done by one of the lecturers of the Electrical-Medical Engineering Technology Study Program in Yogyakarta PGRI University in collaboration with electro-medical technicians in Prambanan Hospital, namely Ekha Rifki Fauzi and Angger Mahares. They develop infant warmers using IoT technology in monitoring the baby’s body temperature and the level of patient oxygen saturation in real-time.
Infant Warmer Hasi tool from this development is also equipped with data logger as a medical history recorder from patients and cameras to help telemedicine between nurses on guard and doctors if the patient needs emergency action.
The development of infant warmer is one of the collaboration of the results of the internal grant of PGRI Yogyakarta University in 2023. In addition, this tool has also received a funding for the registration of patent requests and substantive examinations of the superior program with the potential for intellectual property (Uber-KI) Year 2023 Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology.
Then the infant warmer tool is still the process of submitting a simple patent with the application number S00202304645. This tool has also passed the calibration test and is used to support maintenance services in the Prambanan Regional Hospital.
The results of this collaboration reflect that the implementation of the Tridharma of Higher Education which prioritizes the benefits of research results that can be used to improve the degree of public health. This tool will also be downstreaming in strengthening the production of domestic medical devices with TKDN (domestic content level) reaching 70-90%. Let’s collaborate in goodness for a healthy and prosperous society.
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