Covid-19

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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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• Friends create smartband that vibrates to reduce face touching

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 15:23

  

  Immutouch is a wearable smartband that vibrates every time the users touch their face, with the aim of keeping people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic and also create safe habits for the future. The device was created by two brothers, Matthew and Joseph ...

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• Students develop remote controlled robot to assist patients with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-08 18:51

  

  Engeneering students from the Ecole Superiore Polytechnique (ESP), in Dakar, have developed a medical robot designed to help medical professionals stay safe while treating patients with Covid-19. We've found that health care workers are highly ...

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• Students develop game to raise awareness about social distancing measures

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 11:20

  

  Members of a game development university students’ club, called “GameDev Técnico”, from Instituto Superior Técnico, designed a new computer game to raise awareness about the importance of good social distancing practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. The ...

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• African startup launches a challenge to data scientists to stop the spread of Covid19

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-14 10:36

  

  The crowd solving startup called Zindi, established in South Africa in 2018, has been building a database of data scientists across Africa. Zindi’s aim is to aggregate pressing private or public-sector challenges and match the solution seekers to problem ...

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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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• Researchers develop a device able to monitor trends in flu-like illnesses to aid prevention mechanisms

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-07 10:40

  

  Scientists from the University of Massachusetts developed a portable device, FluSense, powered by artificial intelligence to detect coughing and crowd size in real time. The device analyses the data which are used to monitor trends in flu-like illnesses ...

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• Robot to help hospitalized patients keep in touch with their loved ones

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 22:17

  

  Patients who were hospitalized during the Covid-19 pandemic were not allowed to receive visits from their loved-ones, in order to prevent the spread of the virus. However, to make sure the patients could still keep in touch with their family and friends, ...

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• Innovator from Kenya creates device to sanitize money and help fight Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-09-16 18:03

  

  Dansin Wanjohi lives in Mwea, Kenya, and works as an agent for M-Pesa, a mobile money transfer service, a job which requires him to handle cash everyday. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Kenyan Ministry of Health urged the population to replace cash ...

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• Crowdsourcing platform to track symptoms of the population in the USA

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 11:28

  

  A group of epidemiologists and software developers at Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital got together with other volunteers and developed Covid Near You- a platform that uses crowdsourced data to map the symptoms of the population. The objective is ...

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