Netux
Start-up uses IoT to remotely monitor patients to improve access to healthcare systems
At least 400 million people do not have access to basic health services. Achieving universal health coverage is one of the goals set by the countries that adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Technology can be an ally in improving access to healthcare systems. Even more so in pandemic times, where teleconsultations have prevailed over face-to-face medical care. In this context, knowing a patient's medical status remotely becomes key.
Through his technology start-up Netux, the young electronics engineer Sergio Marín produces technological solutions through the Internet of Things (IoT) aimed at healthcare centers to expand access to healthcare systems with real-time remote patient monitoring systems. For this breakthrough, Marín has been named one of the Innovators under 35 Latin America 2020 by MIT Technology Review in Spanish.
Marín's initiative improves the safety, efficiency and quality of medical consultations through the development of hardware and software to monitor patients' vital signs. With Netux, he seeks to bring these developments to the market and have an impact on society. The young man explains: "We are motivated by developing solutions to improve the wellbeing of communities. In Latin America, there is little technology in patient care".
Netux has built a unique platform that combines hardware, software and artificial intelligence devices to make the day-to-day running of healthcare systems much more efficient. In this way Marin seeks to reduce healthcare spending due to inefficiencies. The young man believes that "technology is the fundamental tool for making the world's healthcare systems sustainable". Preventive and remote patient monitoring also results in this efficiency and better care.
Its system also measures temperature and humidity in various areas of healthcare facilities. This ensures the cold chain of refrigerators, which is essential for vaccines and blood banks. In addition, Netux offers a shift management system to optimize service times and improve service. Netux also allows patients to request nursing services both from the bedside and from the bathroom.
So far Netux has developed more than 35,000 systems and reaches more than 250 healthcare companies and is expanding outside Colombia. Now, Marin intends to turn its platform into a standard to make Latin American healthcare systems more efficient.
In the service of the welfare of our community, and the prosperity of humanity.
