How Does Infrared Fever Detection Technology Help in Healthcare?
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow, the health industry needs to prepare for the worst by welcoming more unannounced patients. Therefore many facility managers are deploying temperature monitoring thermal cameras in entryways as an additional safety measure. What is the goal of these thermal detection cameras? These cameras are used to quickly screen every visitor for detecting if they have a high temperature. If any symptoms are seen, then they are routed to medical care. These cameras employ infrared technology to produce rapid reading. Hence it can be used as a prescreening measure used in buildings such as hospitals and schools. Experts suggest that the individuals who are found to have an elevated temperature should be retested with a medical-grade thermometer. “We see the thermal camera as the initial screening, for processing people as they enter a building,” Peter Frank, an education product manager at Ergotron, recently told EdTech: Focus on Higher Education,