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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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Siblings develop app for high school students to sign virtual yearbooks
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 22:14
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, schools all around the world were forced to close or reduce activities, causing many students to miss out on certain traditional experiences and events that usually mark the end of the school year. One of those traditions, is ...
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Team develops app to ease the triage of Covid19 patients
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-31 15:07
Triage is an app developed by a South Korean team led by Dr JoonNyung Heo, with the aim of aiding the medical staff in the fight against Covid19. Triage App, intended for the medical staff, aims at easing the triage for coronavirus infections by providing ...
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Volunteers in Portugal create app that tells you the size of supermarket queues
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 12:17
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many grocery shops and supermarkets had to impose restrictions on the number of clients inside the shop. So, long queues where forming outside the shops, of people waiting their turn to go inside. To minimize this situation, ...
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Mobile App to track the coronavirus outbreak
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-26 15:25
Lee Jun-young was living in South Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic and, while trying to keep up with the news, he found the data provided by the government hard to understand. The date released by the health officials contained information about the ...
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Students develop app to determine real-time beach occupation
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-27 13:46
A group of four high school students from Portugal developed an app to monitor the real time capacity of 580 beaches across the country. The app is called SandSpace and the aim is for people to check the app before going to the beach, to determine if it ...
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Platform to track the symptoms of citizens in Portugal
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 12:25
Covidografia is a platform developed in Portugal that aims to “take a picture” of the symptoms of the citizens. The platform was developed by volunteers connected throught the Tech4Covid19 project – a tech community that aims to create solution to fight ...
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App to prevent overcrowding in bars and restaurants during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-31 18:40
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, people had to follow certain health a safety measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Such measures include social distancing, which was especially challenging in enclosed spaces, such as restaurants and bars. ...
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Mental health patient launches app to help people cope with the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 12:40
John Kirwan, has been a passionate advocate about mental health for many years, following his own personal struggle. “I had medical depression, I was on anti-depressants—I wanted to jump out of a window one night”, Kirwan explained in a interview. In an ...
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Scientists launch an app to study the pandemic outbreak
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-10 12:35
UC San Francisco physician-scientists launched a new initiative, the COVID-19 Citizen Science (CCS) to allow adults in the world to become citizen-scientists, with the aim of better understanding the pandemic outbreak. US San Francisco researchers ...
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