CARE: Enhanced Critical Care

Product Requirement Documentation - Version 13.0 12th February, 2022

Coronasafe CARE was conceptualised and developed by open-source volunteers with the aim of balancing the load of human patient inflow into the healthcare system with the overall capacity of the healthcare system of your district. CARE has Rapidly Evolved through the First and Second Wave of COVID(2020-21), with the entire codebase being built by Volunteers across the globe. Through this limited period, volunteers built a Shifting System, a Patient EMR, Extensive Analytics, Capacity Monitoring, Telemedicine Functionality, an Investigations module and many other features within CARE.

CARE has received contributions from hundreds of Volunteers through the period.

After the first wave of COVID, the Coronasafe Network, with the support of AICTE and ACT Grants ran a Fellowship of Engineering Graduates who in turn built a Real-time Oxygen Monitoring and a Critical Care Module within CARE.

During the second wave of COVID, with the delta variant spread rapidly across the country with over 17 million cases in 2 months Apr/May 2021, Srikanth Nadhamuni, the founding CTO of the Aadhar project. started the 10BedICU project, to address some of the key shortages that were resulting in thousands of deaths. After the Second wave, the 10BedICU project was taken under the eGovernments foundation

The 10BedICU project was created to improve the critical care infrastructure of the country. It focused on creating 10 Bedded ICU wards in smaller Govt. hospitals where there were no ICU beds. The 10BedICU project adopted the CARE platform. In order to support the activities of 10BedICU, a TeleICU System was built on top of the Patient EMR and Critical Care modules within CARE.

In 2021, CARE was recognized by The United Nations as a “Digital Public Good” (https://digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/)

In India, the CARE platform is bundled in as a part of the 10BedICU deployment in conjunction with state governments. State governments sign MoUs with 10BedICU in order to access the ICU equipment, CARE, training, and other components of the 10BedICU offering.

CARE is now housed within the eGovernments Foundation and actively developed by the 10BedICU Project aimed at delivering TeleICUs across rural India.