KPI students – in the development team of the application for the treatment of COVID-19
In the UK, they created a mobile application and chatbot for monitoring coronavirus infection and the remote provision of medical services to patients with COVID-19. The development team includes five-year students of the Igor Sikorsky KPI Maxym Ostapenko from the Institute of Telecommunication Systems, Marco Basarab and Hanna Korol from the Faculty of Electronics. Students worked together with researchers from the University of Vorick (England) and the ClickMedix expert mobile healthcare company. At the time of development, polytechnics studied at the University of Vorik under the Erasmus + mobility program.
The application program was created to help health workers reduce the influx of patients and perform part of their work: send to the hospital, offer a visit home, provide telemedicine services. In addition, the application manages the supply chain and coordination of the necessary personnel and materials. Also, the application has the ability to communicate with doctors and nurses SMS, Whatsapp and Skype – therefore, you can choose the right treatment and give recommendations without again putting the health workers at risk. And machine learning (ML) helps to calculate the symptoms and severity of COVID-19 in various risk groups and its possible widening by city, region, or whole country.
“The service and mobile application are not so very unique or complex, but this does not detract from their benefits. This taught and confirmed that it is not always necessary to come up with something unusual to improve the situation in the world. Doctors, environmentalists, public figures, the military – those who create today’s history – usually need simple technical solutions to pressing problems”, – commented the development of Maxym Ostapenko.
In the Erasmus + program, students dealt with various projects, but the pandemic forced them to pause and tackle the acute current issue. They are confident in the team: in the event of a significant decline in the incidence rate and avoiding the second wave, the application will be reformatted to other needs.
“The project is really not something innovative, but it appeared at the right time and now the program is widely used in India and the UK. Thanks to the project, it became clear that the same task in different countries requires different solutions. Common approaches do not work everywhere”, – says Marco Basarab on the experience gained.
Students note the university’s contribution to their achievements – training helps students to be ready for new challenges.
“Only a joint goal and motivation are ready to overcome all obstacles. I am very happy to be a student of KPI, because it prepared me for new challenges. KPI is like a school of life, no one after the bachelor’s degree doubts this, but academic mobility is like studying at KPI, squeezed into one semester”, – Hanna Korol shares her thoughts.
While the application is distributed around the world and helps people fight Coronavirus infection, polytechnics are already working on new projects. They plan to continue to help people, using the invaluable knowledge and experience gained.
Source: kpi.ua
