A Bakersfield-based medical software company has responded quickly to the coronavirus pandemic with its launch Tuesday of a cloud-based computer platform designed to help physicians remotely monitor COVID-19 patients.

Sargas Pharmaceutical Adherence and Compliance International's system uses Bluetooth-connected wireless medical devices — or, if that's not available, manual data entry — to record patients' temperature, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, pulse and weight. That information is then shared with caregivers over a secure internet connection.

CEO Gitesh "Git" Patel, who has worked closely with Bakersfield's Comprehensive Blood & Cancer Center for many years, said his roughly 30-employee company has worked in the field of remote patient monitoring for several years. It now provides non-COVID-19 illness management services to hundreds of doctors and some 15,000 patients around the country.

When the coronavirus pandemic arose, the company looked at what medical technology capabilities physicians needed in order to keep an eye on COVID-19 patients' symptoms so they could determine whether or at what point hospitalization was necessary.

Incorporating information on oxygen (O2) saturation and temperature became particularly important for monitoring COVID-19 patients, he said.

"Since our platform already had O2 built and used by some of our existing patients, we added the temperature feature over the weekend," he said Tuesday.

Sargas charges doctors to use its chronic-care management and patient monitoring software. The doctors then bill their services to the federal Medicare program, which early last year began accepting charges for remote patient-monitoring services.

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