Development of an IoT-based Medical Triage for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery

Quality healthcare delivery guarantees good health. In turn, good health is a perquisite to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #3. The need for quality and accessible healthcare delivery has been made bare following the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent health challenges. The ubiquitous capability of the Internet is a feature that when harnessed very well will be vital to the attainment of one of the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 - achieving universal health coverage. The development of an Internet of Things-based Medical Triage for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery is presented in this paper. Specifically, a web application is developed herein to provide common platforms where key actors of a healthcare delivery facility: doctors, nurses, administrators and patients can interact with IoT nodes that measure vital body signs like body temperature and pulse. The i-med triage developed with the Laravel PHP framework uses Application Program Interface (API) keys that enable IoT sensors to write the measured data to a database. From the database, API read keys enable the measured data to be displayed on dashboards which are visible to healthcare providers.