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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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