Covid-19
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Wrist Alert Stops Face Touching and Virus Sread
Solution Shared by fsaccoccio on 2020-05-11 14:19
Wear a simple device on the wrist that has battery and sensor. The device vibrates the wrist when you are unknowingly raising your hand to touch your face, mouth, nose eyes. This silent alert stops the face touching. It lessens the hands-to-face and face ...
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Young student develops an automatic sanitiser dispenser
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-31 10:52
Siddh Sanghvi, a seven-grade Indian student in the UAE used STEM technology to create a robot that dispenses sanitiser detecting a hand from a 30cm range. He had the idea while after watching a video of people touching the hand sanitiser's bottle to ...
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University creates masks made from materials available in hospitals
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-23 12:34
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities all over the world were experiencing severe shortages of medical and protective equipment. To tackle this problem, a team from the Department of anesthesiology at the University of Florida Health ...
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Volunteers developing and delivering visors to healthcare professionals in Portugal
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-21 15:21
The 3D Mask PT is a project started on the 19th of March 2020, when the team produced and delivered a batch of visors to several hospitals in Lisbon to be used, tested and approved by their medical teams. 3D Mask PT aims not only to print visors but also ...
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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 develop open source personal respirator for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-09-16 17:46
A team at the University of Southampton, led by professors Paul Elkington and Hywel Morgan, have developed an innovative device to provide protection for healthcare workers in the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. “It is really important to minimise ...
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Student develops wearable device to help people live during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-26 17:33
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization and each country’s National Health Authorities were advising citizens to maintain social distance and follow proper health and safety measures. In order to make this process easier, Prabin Kumar ...
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Free online Mental Health Kit helps people struggling with their mental health during the pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-12-30 08:18
The Portuguese citizen initiative for mental health – ManifestaMente – has released a free online kit designed to help people protect their mental health, identify trigger warnings and find solutions. The “Basic Mental Health Kit” consist of a 90 minute ...
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Website to help break the habit of face touching
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-30 12:43
Designers Mike Bodge and Isaac Blankensmith and technologist Brian Moore where trying to follow the health and safety measures suggested by the WHO to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they were finding it difficult to avoid face ...
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Nurse takes family photos to hospitalized patients with Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-13 21:03
Jeanna Barbieri is an emergency room nurse, who was taking care of patients with Covid-19 at the Lowell General Hospital. Working in the frontlines of the pandemic, she was working closely with infected patients and found out that the father of an old ...
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