Telangana Deploys COVID–19 Monitoring System App

The Public Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Telangana, invested swiftly to deploy India’s first automated “COVID–19 Monitoring System App”, developed by Hyderabad-based Vera Smart Healthcare to identify, undertake live surveillance and also to track, monitor, and provide real-time analytics to CM and the Health Department.

“COVID–19 Monitoring System App” enables live surveillance, monitoring, tracking, reporting, and major bulletins. The analytics by the app also facilitate assurance to the stakeholders by providing the facts and figures on their fingertips.

The system empowers each health-caller to handle over 1,500 calls, and simple chatbot interaction every day with a patient, to ensure that the symptomatic or confirmed ‘positive’, is quarantined and is under treatment, helping strengthen the COVID-19 contacts outreach significantly. The callers will also remind the patient to self-administer the prescribed treatment, to maintain social distancing, as well as give a reminder to stay home and stay safe.

This app is developed by the US and Hyderabad-based early-stage start-up Vera Smart Healthcare that had earlier helped Telangana, AP, and Tamil Nadu, to create detailed health profiles for more than 50,000 people across these three States in a record number of days.

Vera has introduced the first-ever mobile hospital in India to help increase healthcare accessibility in rural areas covering most of the Indian villages.

Announcing the successful deployment of Vera’s COVID–19 Monitoring System App, director of Public Health Dr. G Srinivas Rao, for COVID surveillance, commended Vera Smart Healthcare expertise to handle COVID surveillance complexities, understand the protocol, and developing the technology platform in a record of three days.