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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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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