COVID-19 Technology Solutions Scan

March 25, 2020 Diana

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COVID-19 Technology Solutions Scan

Below my scan of various technology-based solutions and initiatives emerged / adapted in the fight against the #COVID19. From an AI tool that helps people who were exposed figuring out their best course of action to in-vitro diagnostic kits, funding / accelerators, list of vaccines under development and a cool crowd-sourced map which fights #CoronaVirus shortage supply (such as 🧻). Plus summary of events and some interesting business experts thoughts. There is a lot going on, worth checking out what others have done, learn, plan and innovate.

For a more compact overview. this is the link to the xls version:
https://bit.ly/2wV7Bdl.

A. COVID-19 Technology & products

Under the skin sensor
Real-time fever tracking
Wearable, wireless and continuous body thermometer
Virtual care conversation to help people stay informed about the new coronavirus
A virtual town hall to address anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges among people being held at a national quarantine center
AI-based COVID-19 symptom assessment
Telemedicine technology: Remote care modalities, in-home video visits
Intelligent Nutrition Assistant for cancer patients suffering of COVID-19
Remote examination device (I want ONE!!!)
Corona remote care platform
Commercial coronavirus test kits
Kit to detect coronavirus within an hour
Portable, battery-powered scan device that can detect COVID-19 infection in just 30 minutes
(SO COOL!) Crowdsourced map fights coronavirus shortage supply
In-vitro diagnostic kit
Cough replicator to help COVID-19 patients
Two-way, automated dialogue between any patient device and any clinician software with no app
Code4Romania Coronavirus Taskforce: multiple solutions under development for transparency & public information
Google DeepMind: AI to help scientists understand coronavirus
(CREATIVE!) N95 masks with faces that allow phone facial recognition
Antiviral soap for automatic hand washing microstations
Quarantine and isolation monitoring to assist governments (does not mention the Romanian gvmt)
COVID-19 diagnostic based on MIT technology
COVID-19 Screening App
AI imaging evaluation system for COVID-19 (intelligent diagnosis and quantitative evaluation of CT images of COVID-19)
Coronavirus assessment tool
MayaMD.AI tool that helps people who were exposed or potentially exposed to the coronavirus figure out their best course of action
Online app that tracks the relationships between the reported cases of coronavirus infections (Romania) – Who infected who
Open source project to build an app for reporting and sharing symptoms, and performing automatic real-time contact matching and tracing at scale
Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy
Paper device could bring portable coronavirus detection
3D printing valves and emergency ventilation masks for Coronavirus patients

B. Solutions Platforms / Accelerators

Open-source medical devices for COVID-19 project
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & Mastercard
Spanish platform aggregating tech solutions for fighting the pandemic
EU Funding for COVID-19 solutions
Romanian platform for 24 Hours Challenge
Fighting CoronaVirus with TechData – aggregator of solutions & projects
Online puzzle game for crowdsourcing CoronaVirus treatment
Nvidia call for gaming PC owners to put their systems at work against COVID-19
Community collaboration and engagement tool example
COVID-19 Hotline for medical staff recruitment
Platform where you can build a journal of contacts and get an instant notification when someone in your circle is a confirmed COVID-19 case
Coronavirus Prevention Handbook by Jack Ma foundation
Overview of hackathons tackling the crisis

C. Online events

Singularity University COVID-19 Virtual Summit: The State & Future of Pandemics
ExO World: Exponential Organization community digital conference
ExO Online workshop with global audience for creative COVID-19 solutions that can be implemented globally in a fast way – based on the ExO methodology
TEDConnects: community & hope talks (incl. interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19)