QHALIKIOSK: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MULTILINGUAL HEALTH KIOSK FOR AUTOMATED TRIAGE

Llanos D.G.; Garcia S.C.; Munayco D.F.; Peralta F.P.; Cancino J.I.; Cieza L.Y.; Caceres J.A. · Proceedings of the 2026 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2026 (2026) · DOI: 10.1115/dmd2026-1088

Resumen

Timely and standardized triage remains challenging in peri-urban Peru, where vital-sign measurement is still predominantly manual and disconnected from digital records. This leads to workload variability, transcription errors, and delays in first-contact care. This paper presents QhaliKiosk, a bilingual (Spanish–Quechua) self-service health kiosk designed to automate the acquisition of key vital signs (heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, temperature, and cuffless blood pressure) and to link each encounter to a national identification number (DNI) for longitudinal pre-clinical records. The system integrates biomedical sensors (AD8232, AFE4490, MLX90614), an ESP32-S3-based XSpace Bio board, and a Raspberry Pi 5 running a React/FastAPI human–machine interface operated via a joystick and arcade-style buttons, tailored for low-literacy users. Development followed the GAITS and VDI 2206 frameworks to ensure traceability from contextual needs to prototyping and verification. Bench tests show heart rate and oxygen saturation errors below typical triage tolerances, and a full triage workflow time of approximately 180s. QhaliKiosk provides a scalable, culturally adapted approach to triage automation in resource constrained healthcare environments and offers a practical basis for future interoperability with national e-health platforms. QhaliKiosk is intended as a screening-support tool that complements, rather than replaces, clinical triage performed by healthcare professionals.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia