Let’s break barriers to fight Covid-19 together
Extraordinary times like these also bring out the best and most creative in people. We would like to use our platform and extensive network to bring ideas regarding Covid-19 together, and get all the help needed to drive them forward as rapidly as possible.
Therefore, we have set up this website, where everybody can share their ideas and inventions with the world, with the aim of improving them and inspiring others. Simply add your idea using the menu, or comment on one of the ideas already published. Think, for example, about ways to better use or reuse equipment needed, or to test or treat patients. Or, if it is an invention you want to build in to a venture, we will advise you on how we or someone in our network can help you do this. Send us your ideas via inventions@nlc.health, and we will look at it at the shortest notice possible.
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Using Medical Detection Dogs to detect COVID-19 patients
If successful, the dogs could smell up to 750 people an hour, bringing a huge relief to the current shortage of testing.
SPEKTRAX: Minute COVID-19 test kit with a handheld device
SPEKTRAX has applied a radically new technology to make mass and local testing possible. The test kits will allow for rapid testing
Water research yields better detection method for coronavirus
Water research and the coronavirus are not a logical combination. Nevertheless, researchers from Delft and Norway have managed to apply a finding
Microneedle coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response in mice
Researchers led by Drs. Louis Falo, Jr. and Andrea Gambotto from the University of Pittsburgh have been working to develop vaccines for
Alibaba develops algorithm to identify COVID infections
Alibaba’s research institute said they had trained the AI model with sample data from more than 5,000 confirmed cases, and that it
Ortho Diagnostics Unveils COVID-19 Antibody Test
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a company out of Raritan, New Jersey, has unveiled its SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) antibody test, a development that may allow
Hi Technologies produces portable COVID test with results in 15 minutes
The company’s main product, Hilab, is a portable, connected laboratory capable of instantly detecting infectious diseases through non-invasive blood tests. The COVID
LiveMD self-diagnosis COVID
LiveMD launched a new app where people can track COVID in their local area, self-diagnose themselves using an AI-based integrated tool, report
Corona-AI project will use smartphones to find new treatments
Working with the Vodafone Foundation, the ‘Corona-AI’ project will use the free DreamLab app, which crunches calculations using a smartphone’s computing power
Anti-parasite drug could help to stop coronavirus
Australian researchers have published a study showing a drug commonly used to treat parasite infections can also kill coronavirus in a laboratory
Lucense develops viral sample collection device
Singapore-based Lucence said it has developed a sample collection device for viral infections such as COVID-19. Unlike other companies’ tests, Lucence’s SAFER-Sample
Everlywell to offer at-home COVID-19 tests
Home testing company Everlywell said that it will launch a home test kit with telehealth diagnosis for COVID-19 on Monday. The Austin, Texas-based
Mayo Clinic develops corona test with results in 24 hours
Mayo Clinic announced that it has developed a test to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The individuals undergoing the Mayo
COVID-19 monitoring system by Medtronic
Medtronic Care Management Services is launching two new software programs for assessing, monitoring and triaging people concerned about COVID-19 and potential symptoms.
Abbott launches molecular point of care test with results in 5 minutes
Abbott announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the fastest available molecular
CAD4COVID: artificial intelligence of COVID-19 triage
Nearly all countries around the world are facing COVID-19. This crisis is inspiring unprecedented global efforts across all industries, and we are
Apple launches Covid-19 screening
Apple released a new Covid-19 screening tool in both app and website form, for people worried they may have gotten infected with
International research AI-project on CT for COVID-19 started
A radiologist at the #ETZ Hospital saw that the number of CT scans with Covid-19 images is growing spectacularly, even with patients
At home Corona check via an app
OLVG, CWZ, WZA and UMC Utrecht, together with Luscii, have developed an app – the OLVG Corona Check. With this app, people
Overview of tests for corona and opportunities
The extraordinary success of Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong in limiting the impact of the sudden acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) demonstrates that it
Safe sampling for COVID-19 with DTwist
Safe Sampling for #COVID-19 testing in home (quarantine) setting is getting more challenging with on the one hand the need for trained staff
SOLIDARITY trial of the WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced a large global trial, called SOLIDARITY, to find out whether any drug can treat infections with
First trials with Vaccin in the US started
Today, the first-ever U.S.-based injection of a human patient with an “investigational” vaccine went forward. The patient, shown in the tweet below,
Rapid Testing for COVID-19
Scientists from the University of Oxford’s Engineering Science Department and the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) have developed a rapid
Medtronic shares ventilator IP to combat shortages amid coronavirus
Medtronic is publicly sharing the design specifications of its Puritan Bennett 560 (PB 560) ventilator amid a global shortage of the devices
Open-source 3D printed respirator for 40 euros
Ventilaid is an unusual project straight out of Poland and just in time for the COVID-19 crisis. A team of engineers has
Within 10 days from idea to realization of the ABU Pulmonary Ventilator
PerformingBeyondLimits and Omnidernal have designed a Pulmonary Ventilator and built a prototype within 10 days. To cope with the continuously growing needs
CoVent 3D printed ventilator goes for FDA emergency application
Led by ER doctors at Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso and the University of Texas at El Paso. Developing
Simple, Inexpensive Mechanical Ventilator by University of Minnesota
A team at the University of Minnesota has designed a mechanical ventilator that is inexpensive and made of easy to obtain materials.
MIT Emergency Ventilator Submitted for FDA Review
A group of MIT engineers has now designed and submitted to the FDA, under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), a ventilator made out
Respirators for all
VentilatorPAL is a not-for-profit solution to the acute lack of respirators for the rapidly growing number of COVID-19 patients around the world.
OxVent, a collaboration for COVID 19 ventilation
A multidisciplinary team of engineers and medics at the University of Oxford and King’s College London, mobilised to increase the UK’s capacity
Medical Ventilator for emergency situations
In the fight against the growing shortage of medical ventilators, prof. dr. Ir. Jaap Harlaar and students from the master program Technical
Multiple patients on a single respirator
Summary: because it is hard do quickly develop more respirators, so University of Twente and Amsterdam UMC are working together to treat
Increase the capacity of ventilators to treat more patients when ventilators run out.
Canadian doctor Dr. Alain Gauthier, an anesthetist at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital in Ontario, turned one hospital ventilator into a machine
Reusing N95 masks
Stanford researchers confirm N95 masks can be sterilized and reused with virtually no loss of filtration efficiency by leaving in oven for
UV light robot use to destroy viruses and bacteria
Robots that can disinfect surfaces in hospitals have been sent in truckloads to China, Italy, and other heavily affected countries. UVD Robots has
Open Source Face Mask
While face masks that block particles from coming into the lungs via the nose and mouth are important to prevent the spread
New nano-filter for reusable face masks
A KAIST research team announced that they have developed a nano-filter that maintains excellent filtering efficiency even after hand washing through the
Taiwanese doctor invents device to protect doctors against coronavirus
A Taiwanese doctor on Saturday (March 21) released the design for a device that better protects doctors as they intubate patients, as
Resterilising surgical masks using steam
In the fight against the growing shortage of surgical masks, John van den Dobbelsteen and Tim Horeman, researchers at the department of
Emergency mask for hospital ventilators
Summary: Faced with the urgent COVID-19 crisis, Isinnova found a way to repurpose snorkelling masks from Decathlon as C-PAP masks used for
Yale Scientists Release COVID-19 Treatment Algorithm
A team of experts from Yale, also known as the COVID-19 Treatment team, was led by infectious diseases physicians and has created
Using Ozone to disinfect rooms
Ozone is one of the most powerful disinfectants. It is 50 times more effective at disinfection compared to the most popular disinfectant
MIT Researchers Turn COVID-19 into a Classical Melody Using AI
Comprehending how the coronavirus works is crucial right now as the outbreak keeps spreading across the world. Scientists and researchers are turning to novel
How We Feel: a self-reporting COVID tracking app
The free-to-download app is designed to make it easy to self-report whether or not people feel well and what symptoms they are
Forward At Home’ a primary care service to help non-COVID patients during lockdown
Foward adapts to a need for remote health services to support non-COVID patients during lockdown. Patients get a kit consisting of an
LUMC: Covid Box for home monitoring
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has started home monitoring of LUMC patients who are infected with the coronavirus. These patients have
Healthmonitor for home monitoring of Covid patients
Corona patients who are not ill enough to be treated in the hospital, need to improve their health staying at home. However,
Sharing standardized data to stop diseases like COVID-19
Effectively fighting an epidemic means making urgent and swift changes to policy and infrastructure. One of the best examples of this was
LUMC launches COVID Radar
The Leiden University Medical Centre has launched a mobile app to acquire information on Corona related health complaints and people’s behavior. With
New support for positioning patients in the ICU
Medtech scale-up Ergotrics from Belgium already successfully launched an innovative solution to lift and position patients before spine surgery. Based on the
VR firm urgently retrain workers to cope with coronavirus
Virti, a Bristol-based virtual and augmented reality firm, plans to retrain more than 15,000 NHS (National Health Service) nurses, doctors, cleaners and