Thursday, April 30, 2020

How technology merges with medical to stand against COVID19

Debajyoti Dutta
Computer Science & Engineering, 3rd Year
From the start of 2020, we heard more or less about new corona virus COVID-19. And from that situation, this virus took the attention of people all around the world. After that WHO also declared this virus as pandemic. Things are getting worse every day as we saw the deadly face of this virus. Although there is no absolute cure till now, we are trying to prevent this virus from spreading as much as possible. Now let’s talk about how technology may come and take over the pandemic situation.
Now we know the symptoms of the virus like having fever. So, in this reference we may develop a wrist band which will check the body temperature and current location regularly after some interval and if the body temperature is more than normal then the wrist band should send data about the location immediately to the local police station so that they can come and make the person go for the plasma test. Here some additional features may be added such as each person has to provide his name and identity while installing the wrist band and this will be one-time installation so that the person cannot take his device off and if a person does, then an immediate information should be sent to local police.
Again, if we talk about the lockdown then it is very hard to monitor the situation and condition in every place effectively. So, in this case we may use drones for monitoring purposes. Drones may be used to broadcast an emergency message immediately. By using drones, it will be very easy and effective to monitor crowded places and police can take action accordingly.
Preventing and monitoring crowds will be easy if it is possible to attach digital cameras with thermal sensors in street light posts. This may help to test the body temperature of individual people by using the thermal sensor like IR sensor and if someone is found exceeding that temperature or not using a mask, then a photograph of the person’s face is to be taken and sent to the police. It is heard that some Tech Industries of China is already implementing this method such that it can identify a person’s face if that is covered with a mask also.
Now if we focus on medical research, Artificial Intelligence plays a vital role here. With the help of Big Data Analysis and simulations now Medical Professionals can understand more about the virus with ease. It will also help them to find out proper medicines using simulations.
There are some risks for those medical workers who have to work and help the active COVID-19 patient. To mitigate this problem, we may think about some bots (Robots) which may be helpful for the Medical Workers to send medicines, foods and monitor the active COVID-19 patients in Hospitals. This will surely decrease the risk of getting affected with COVID-19 to Medical Workers. In the pandemic situation we may also think about automated or remote-control cars for delivery of essential Commodities between inter cities.
People are very cautious nowadays. Everybody is trying to have a test for Covid19 and this increases load on the hospitals. So, to mitigate this issue, we may think about making a Virtual Risk Analyzer through which people have to answer some basic questions and get the chances or risk of getting affected by COVID-19. And if he gets a higher risk value, then he may go for the actual test in Hospital. This will surely help to decrease the load in hospitals.
The COVID-19 has been a threatening global health emergency relative to the previous big outbreak of SARS epidemics. Researchers, scientists and medical specialists concentrate on using emergent digital technology to break the virus. With the migration of technologies into medical services we may fight and win the battle against COVID-19.
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