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, a sister CDW publication.

Most thermal cameras must calibrate against a “black body,” to get reliable surface reading. Black body is an an accessory generally sold with the camera. Then, the camera indicates the difference between the subject’s and the black body’s predetermined temperature.

How Thermal Camera Technology is Used in Hospitals to Evaluate Visitors

Thermal temperature detection in the UK is done in the hospitals by deploying thermal cameras at the entry-level where trained officials check the temperature of the people entering the premises. They now have to follow directions on a tablet to position their head correctly, then after they have to wait for a green check or red-cross symbol indicating the results of their thermal scan.

In many cases, deployment of such efficient technology is responsible for reducing the number of patients working in the medical facility.