Hospital-to-Home Rehabilitation Sensing
Vinmec Vital Sentinel: Continuous monitoring platform extending clinical-grade diagnostics into the home.
Pilot Status: Planned | Target: Q2 2027 | Partners: Vinmec Healthcare, V-SENSE Biosensing Core
Silent Deterioration
Post-discharge recovery is a critical window. Clinicians rely on vital signs, but discontinuous measurement creates gaps—a patient's condition can deteriorate for hours before the next checkup. Vital Sentinel bridges this gap with skin-conformal, continuous biosensing that quantifies measurement uncertainty, enabling clinicians to distinguish genuine physiological changes from sensor artifacts.
Multi-Parametric Biosensing
Fully Integrated Continuous Bio-Sensing
Skin-conformal, flexible VLSI circuits capable of simultaneous multi-parametric tracking:
- ▸Electrocardiography (ECG) — continuous cardiac rhythm with 500 Hz sampling, band-pass filtering integrated on-chip
- ▸Sweat-based Biomarkers — lactate and glucose via integrated microfluidic electrochemical transduction
- ▸Core Body Temperature — distributed thermistors with cross-node consensus filtering
- ▸Respiration Rate — impedance-based thoracic sensing with motion-artifact rejection
Uncertainty Quantification at the Circuit Level
On-chip probabilistic circuits calculate real-time confidence metrics, distinguishing genuine events from noise:
- ▸Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) Calculation — local AFE continuously computes SNR against noise floor; low SNR triggers automatic gain adjustment
- ▸Motion-Artifact Separation — cross-channel coherence analysis identifies cardiac signal corruption from patient movement, flagging low-confidence windows
- ▸Bio-Fouling Detection — biochemical sensor response degrades predictably; on-chip model flags electrochemical surface fouling before accuracy loss
- ▸Clinician-Interpretable Confidence — each vital metric paired with confidence score (0–100%) reported to hospital dashboard in real time
Real-Time ECG QRS Complex Detection
Watch live Pan-Tompkins heartbeat detection algorithm identify R-peaks in noisy ECG waveforms. The on-chip filter automatically adapts to reject motion artifacts and electrical noise while maintaining clinical accuracy. Heart rate updates with each detected beat.
From Bench to Bedside
Reference device characterization against FDA gold-standard comparators. Phantom testing to validate on-chip UQ algorithms under controlled noise scenarios.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval pending. Recruitment: 50 post-surgical patients. Comparison: Vital Sentinel vs. standard clinical monitoring protocol.
This pilot draws on V-SENSE's three core engineering frontiers:
Spatial Transcriptomics Tissue Analyzer
Laser-assisted multiplex sequencing mapping localized mRNA cellular expression. Watch a neon scanning beam illuminate glowing cell nuclei, revealing genetic expression patterns in real-time through dynamic color shifts.
Photoplethysmograph (PPG) Engine
Real-time systemic arterial pulse wave rendering tracking cardiovascular dicrotic notches. Infrared LED optical absorption reveals the heart's actual mechanics—systolic surge, aortic valve snap, diastolic decay.