LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- By Kim Yoon-mi, Korea Biomedical Review Correspondent - Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of vaccinations shot up. Covid-19 vaccination requires at least three doses, let alone other vaccines, including flu shots. The increase of vaccinations weighs on medical institutions, which have to deal with additional administrative work. In addition, the risk of mismatching a vaccine or making a dose error has also increased.
To help reduce those risks, Korean tech company Real Time Medi Check developed a vaccine information platform called RTMC-V that uses QR codes. As a result, people who get inoculated can also manage which vaccine they should receive and when they should get it with a single QR code.
Real Time Medi Check showcased RTMC-V at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022, the world’s largest IT and electronics trade show, in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
RTMC-V recognizes all barcodes and QR codes of existing vaccine products and transmits information in real-time. The ultra-precise, high-sensitivity sensor lens also recognizes small QR codes and barcodes displayed in pre-filled syringes.
The platform helps collect the number of vaccinations, locations, and times and build the database. It allows hospitals to predict demand for vaccines by vaccine type. The platform can analyze the database with machine learning and visualize them.
The company said it completed the verification of the system on 583 people.
As a result, some university hospitals in Gangwon Province already use RTMC-V.
At the company’s booth during CES 2022, Lim Jae-joon, director at Real Time Medi Check, said, “Once you put several pieces of information such as mobile phone number, the platform creates an individual QR code. Then, you can check when you got which vaccine, whether there was any adverse reaction.”
Parents raising children find it hard to remember which vaccines their children should get and when, but using RTMC-V with a QR code makes it easy to keep track of children’s vaccinations, he said.
For medical institutions, it is such a hassle to register vaccination information. Moreover, Covid-19 vaccinations added those burdens and increased the risk of human errors in inputting information, Lim went on to say.
However, the company’s platform automatically inputs vaccination information once it recognizes a QR code, he said.
“It can track not only vaccines but pharmaceutical products,” he added.