Smart Room with AI Capabilities for Efficient and Safe Doctor Checkup in the COVID era

Abstract

This paper presents a novel idea for making the checkup visits to the doctor more efficient and virus safe. In general, a doctor's checkup starts by measuring the height and weight of the patient. These tests do not require the doctor physically there with the patient. Instead, the nurse or in some cases the secretary helps by guiding the patient to the weight and height scales, plus giving indications, while asking questions. The tests can be more elaborated if the visual test is included. Nevertheless, the doctor is still not required in these tests. He is required after the checkup tests, for analyzing the data together with the patient. This paper proposes a design of a smart room for guiding the patient step by step in the checkup stages for height, weight, and vision test. In this setup, the smart room tries to make the patient comfortable while gathering data, similar to a nurse. The ultimate goal of this development is not to change a nurse for an A.I. system. Instead, it is to give the nurse and doctor more time for other more important tasks about the patient, such as administrative or in case of kids, to talk with the parents while the kid is performing the checkup with the smart room.