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Researchers create Artificial Intelligence models to detect Covid-19 from X-Rays
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-25 15:31
Researchers from the University of Waterloo Vision and Image Processing Lab and the startup DarwinAI partnered to create COVID-Net- a convolutional neural network for COVID-19 detection from chest radiographies. They started working on this project with ...
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University team develops a tool to help hospitals with capacity planning
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-05-07 11:39
The Predictive Healthcare Team from the University of Pennsylvania developed a tool, the Covid-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics (CHIME), to assist hospitals with capacity planning around Covid-19. As demand increases following the pandemic outbreak, ...
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Inventor creates system that detects if people are wearing a mask
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-21 22:04
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Rahul Khanna D (known as “the lonely programmer”) decided to use his skills as a Computer Vision Engineer to create a solution that would help fight the coronavirus. He created a system that is able to determine if a person ...
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Young graduates create platform to match Covid-19 patients with plasma donors
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-07 18:06
Recent graduates Karina Thakrar and Dr. Neil Pinto have created PINT (Plasma In Need For Transfusion) Network – a website that is based on a matchmaking algorithm that, quickly and efficiently, matches plasma donors with Covid-19 patients in need. " ...
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Movement provides tablets for hospitalized patients to communicate with their families
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-27 18:14
To combat the isolation of hospitalized patients, unable to receive visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic, a movement in Portugal was created to provide the patients with a means of communicating with their loved-ones. The movement aims to donate 2500 ...
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Team creates Chatbot that automatically answers questions about the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 16:05
SUVE is a chatbot created to automatically answer people’s questions about the coronavirus pandemic, in real time. It was created by the eeBot team, during the “Hack the Crisis” hackathon, organized in March 2020 by Garage48 and Accelerate Estonia. The ...
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Startup launches free app to help monitor the health of nursing home residents
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-29 21:55
To help nursing homes and assisted care facilities monitor their residents, one of the most vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Portuguese company Create IT launched a new, free platform call “+Próximo” (“Closer”, in English”). The app ...
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Computing power devoted to finding treatments for Covid-19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-30 11:47
Folding@home is a project that borrows your PC’s unused computing power to research treatments for the coronavirus. The system in place thanks to Folding@home has more computing power than the top 100 supercomputers combined. It is capable of calculating ...
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AI-powered bot to help medical professional monitor patients with Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-29 21:16
In Singapore, the National University Health System and Bot MD, an AI healthcare startup, have developed SGDormBot – an AI-powered chatbot that allows physicians to monitor the health of residents at six dormitories for migrant workers. The dormitories ...
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Researchers share software that helps healthcare facilities manage PPE stock
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 17:37
A team of researchers from ICMC-USP (Mathematical Science and Computation Institute from São Paulo University) have created a software that helps hospitals and other medical facilities manage their protective equipment stock. Personal protective equipment ...
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