Публикация Школы траблшутеров

How does the service of remote medical examinations for drivers increase security?

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16 июля 2024 г. Просмотров: 191

Reengineering, Development | Oleg Braginsky, Vitaliy Lazhintsev, Sergei Kondratenko, Anastasia Potapkina

Founder of School of Troubleshooters Oleg Braginsky with Vitaliy Lazhintsev and Sergei Kondratenko, students, present a case of development of a service for detection of diseases and risk factors of chauffeurs.

Safety of transport workers and passengers is the primary task, and the state pays maximum attention to it. Every day millions of people get behind the wheel, many lives depend on their health and physical capability to drive vehicle.

Check-ups at hospitals usually are limited and inconvenient. Long queues, extra time to get to a medical facility, and impossibility to get a certificate creates situations when trip permits are simply falsified.

There is a black market, where organizations for a small fee give fake references, false medical books and documents about the alleged inspections carried out. Therefore, innovative approaches to pre-trip checks are more relevant than ever.

Disadvantages of traditional examinations

Current control methods of drivers are imperfect. Especially if companies do not have a medic on staff. It makes difficult to access check-ups, which makes threats for general safety. Firms often cooperate with the nearest clinics to which the staff is sent.

Drivers live in a high tempo due to regular journeys, so they can’t spend a lot of time in medical institutions. In addition not all clinics specialize in pre-trip examinations. This makes the process of obtaining the necessary confirmations even more difficult.

In the aggregate, the listed facts not only create inconveniences for workers' transportation divisions, but represent potential risks for road safety.

The solution is easy – to install medical terminals at the enterprises, which will measure important indicators and in real time transfer them to specialists, who have the authority to give the permission to drive.

There will be no need to go anywhere, and the procedure will take only 10 minutes!

The concept of remote check-ups

We overcame obstacles to make confirmations of the drivers’ health status easy and fast. The service offers a more flexible approach minimizing inconveniences that drivers have faced before.

The 2023 has added alterations in operating requirements of transport vehicles, affecting organizations and entrepreneurs. They introduced new standards for waybills, changed taxi rules and made digitalization of cargo transportation contracts.

According to the new version of the federal law from 10.12.1995 Nº 196-FL «About road safety» there are new requirements for medical examinations for those who drive transport for the company:

  1. Post trip medical observations became obligatory throughout the entire period of work, if employment is related to the transportation of passengers or dangerous goods.
  2. Check-ups must be taken at least once in every two years. This is made to monitor the state of health in dynamics and to identify occupational diseases in advance. Also, it helps to detect signs of exposure to harmful and dangerous factors of the working environment.
  3. Pre-employment screening for all employees whose labor activity is directly related to driving vehicles. In order to assess the compliance of the employee’s health with assigned work.
  4. Obligatory medical examinations during the working day to determine the impact of harmful factors of the labor process, to identify signs of alcohol, narcotic and other kind of intoxication.
  5. Pre-trip audits are now mandatory on an ongoing basis for all drivers, with the exception of those who drive emergency vehicles.

The remote expertise service provides a convenient solution for employers in the context of new regulations. It will become a key tool in meeting medical standards for drivers.

Functional

The service allows drivers to undergo remote inspections. The terminal was manufactured for the project, and it is equipped with blood pressure, pulse, and temperature measurement tools. Also, it makes alcohol intoxication test. The measurements are certified, accurate and reliable.

The complex provides doctors with complete information about the condition of the employees. The terminal is provided to transport companies for installation in specially designated premises.

Remote doctor has access to the data collected by the medical complex. He/she makes important decisions about admission to work and ensures that employees do not have deviations in health indicators and can perform their duties.

The service is comparable with visit to the doctor: if there are constant variations from the norm, it will automatically create a referral for an appointment with a therapist.

The therapist, conducting a remote consultation, issues a certificate with an electronic digital signature (EDS) about the patient's health status. This is an official legal document that guarantees authenticity and legality.

You may say that online medical examinations are unreliable. Because it seems that it is easy to cheat the system sending another person for inspection instead of you. If this thought has flashed through your mind, then we've thought about it too!

The terminal is equipped with a camcorder. Employees are authorized by a service number and a photo in a driving license. The whole process is recorded – with indicators doctor also receives video, which shows how and who passed the tests.

On the other hand, we eliminated the possibility to bribe the doctor, because no driver knows who exactly issues the conclusion. The doctor may even be in another city.

Technologies

The service consists of two components – the desktop version and the terminal application. To create it we used:

  1. Frontend – React.js, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Material Ul, React Hook Form, React Router DOM, Axios.
  2. Mobile apps – Android OS, Retrofit, Android, Rjava, CameraX, Coroutines, Google, ML Kit Face Detection.
  3. Backend – Nest.js.

We can endlessly talk about how everything looks from the inside. Therefore, for those who are interested in the technical part, we will prepare another article that will reveal the world of code and development.

When are we going to the market?

After the release of the first version, our customer began the certification process in the laboratories of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. It is necessary to confirm the authenticity of the results and issue permission for use and distribution. The work is not finished yet.

The first release launched a new stage of improvements. We will create not only an examination service, but also an online company that monitors the processes of the transport network: it will locate drivers and make electronic waybills.

We are considering creating a separate app for remote consultation with a therapist so that drivers can get a quick response to a state of health raising doubts.

Telemedicine is a new and useful trend: a patient can get a doctor's consultation on a planned and urgent basis. With our help, medicine becomes more accessible, and roads safer. The service helps to reduce malicious and dangerous violations.

Now you can be sure that staff not just feel well, but also have official conclusions confirming an appropriate health status.