helpfulETHNeed COVID-19 test samples must be collected and transported from a hospital to a laboratory where they are analyzed. The turnover time (time between taking a sample and getting a result) is approximately 24 hours. This is too long for priority samples, where a turnover time of 6 hours is targeted. At the moment, it…
Happy Easter from the “engineering frontline” against COVID-19! While the Easter bunny is working hard, so are we! Corona unforntunately takes no Easter holidays. Our project teams continue to work diligently and have come a long way. While our mission is to create quickly implementable solutions for healthcare, helpfulETH also relies strongly on our healthcare…
After the go-live of helpfulETH in the ETH News yesterday, EPFL is also spreading the word in their social media channels. Head over to their facebook or twitter to read and share. Together we can make a difference on the engineering front line in the Corona-situation!
Today our initiative “helpfulETH” is officially launched. We already have a whole bunch of projects up and running, some of which are rolling out solutions to hospitals very soon. To read the article, check out the ETH News page (German).Here for English.
More than 800 face shields have been produced by now! To think helpfulETH only started 3 weeks ago…!
After a bit more than two weeks in existence, helpfulETH grew a lot and we already have multiple ongoing projects. To celebrate this and get to know each other a bit better, we had our first (virtual) town hall meeting this Thursday.
Need Every day new information and rules about COVID-19 are decided. This information must be distributed as quickly and easily as possible to nurses, doctors, and all other people. At the moment, this is a tedious process. The information is sent individually to selected people in departments, who should then pass it to their people.…
AI-Based App for COVID-19 Screening Using Coughing In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, mass coronavirus testing has proven essential to governments in monitoring the spread of the disease, isolating infected individuals, and effectively “flattening the curve” of infections over time [1]. However, this oropharyngeal swab test is physically invasive and must be performed by…