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What compelled me to register for a weekend Health Hackathon? Anyway, I could soon be up to my ears in it. A pubmed search on Health Hack...

Thursday, March 26, 2020

digital health initiatives in the wake of COVID-19


6. 17-year-old builds a website to closely track the Coronavirus epidemic and now millions are using it:https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/13/meet_the_17_year_old_behind

7. Flatten the Curve. Volunteer engineers and clinicians big data real-time heatmap of potential and confirmed COVID-19 cases: https://flatten.ca/

8. Ontario, Alberta, etc., billing codes for primary virtual visits: https://ontariomd.news/

9. Wildly Popular South Korean covid-19 tracker app: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wildly-popular-coronavirus-tracker-app-helps-south-koreans-steer-clear-of-outbreak-areas-2020-03-18

10. South Korean coronavirus tracking apps: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-south-korea-photos-apps-location-outbreak-where-2020-3#the-app-collects-data-from-public-government-info-including-the-korea-centers-for-disease-control-to-show-the-date-a-patient-was-diagnosed-with-covid-19-along-with-the-persons-nationality-age-gender-and-where-they-visited-2

11. WeDoctor - free consultation from medical clinicians: https://promo.guahao.com/en/global/pneumonia

12. Donate PPE in Canada: https://togetherwecandothis.ca/

13. National Emergency Library - Free books online: http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/the-national-emergency-library-makes-nearly-1-5-million-books-free-to-read-right-now.html

14. MIT Emergency Ventilator Project: https://e-vent.mit.edu/

15. Canadian MD Ventilator Hack 1 ventilator for 9 people: https://www.upworthy.com/canadian-doctors-brilliant-evil-genius-hack-turns-one-ventilator-into-nine

16. Nobel Laureate Leads Push for Made in Canada Ventilator: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-nobel-laureate-leads-push-for-simple-made-in-canada-ventilator/

17. Medical Futurist - COVID-19 Was Needed for Telemedicine to Finally Go Mainstream: https://medicalfuturist.com/covid-19-was-needed-for-telemedicine-to-finally-go-mainstream/

18. Project Northern Lights - Groups of Canadians using Slack to hack projects for COVID:  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadians-use-crowdsourcing-to-produce-medical-supplies-for-health/

19. SECDEV looking for Cybersecurity IT Professionals to volunteer to protect healthcare centres from disinformation, ransom ware attacks, etc:https://www.secdev.com/

20. FutureLoop - Pandemic Edition: https://futureloop.com/register/coronavirus/












32. How is my Flattening?  includes vaccination percentages for Ontario

33. Canada's Public Health Data Meltdown - MacLeans article by Justin Ling


35. ProMed - International Society for the Infectious Diseases









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