In a joint effort with KEM Hospital and Kimaya NICU, a domain-specific neonatal healthcare technology provider, neonatal ICUs now have a fully-automated online platform to formulate nutritional supplements for premature infants with 100% accuracy and in a fraction of the time. Launched on the occasion of the World Prematurity Day, this platform has already shown impressive results in its pilot test stage.
In the pilot test, deployed at Pune’s KEM hospital, the Kimaya-TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition) solution has been able to contribute in reducing the neonatal mortality rate by close-to 45% due to its high performance and efficiency. The one screen application allows doctors to calculate the neonatal nutritional plan for each baby with very high accuracy, within seconds. This simply requires them to enter a set of informational data points into the application, such as body weight, additives amount, lipid requirement and other special nutritional options.
Gautam Rege, Co-Founder, Kimaya NICU, had this to add, “A deep-rooted desire to deliver a cutting-edge solution for Neonatal ICUs enabled our team to conceptualize, program and deploy the Kimaya-TPN Software. Since this is a life-critical process with the impact of errors being fatal to neonates, the application has a number of fail-safe mechanisms to prevent erroneous entries and thus give infants a fighting chance at survival.”
This cloud based application allows the records of infants to be accessed easily in the future and from multiple locations. The application archives infant progress on a day-to-day basis, thus allowing doctors to plan the nutrition for each infant. The impact the application can have is huge and a further refined version of the software, based on inputs by medical experts is ready to give NICUs across the country a cutting-edge tool aimed at saving infant lives.
