Saturday, 29 August 2020

AI­-based technologies to help tackle COVID­-19

 AI­-based technologies to help tackle COVID­-19

  • As a part of Israel­-India cooperation to fight the ongoing COVID­-19 pandemic, (AIIMS), Delhi has received state­of­the­art AI-­based technologies and high­end equipment from the Embassy of Israel
  • The technologies include an
  • AI video­oriented, voice­operated autonomous personal AI assistant robot, an app that can be installed on any mobile phone of the COVID­19 staff which makes the work of the hospital staff inside the COVID­19 departments much more effective and easier
  • It also includes innovative products designed to give clinicians constant contact-free access to patient’s vitals like heart rate and the respiratory rate which improves patient safety with contact-free, continuous patient monitoring, a 12­hour disinfection product called CPD that stays active and continuous to protect the surface against new attacks of contamination.
  • It also has a non­invasive remote­patient monitoring system which aids as a preliminary screening tool of respiratory indicators of suspected COVID­19 patients and recovering patients and AI­-based software for ultrasound use and designed specially to fight COVID­19

Other cooperation of Israel with India in Covid-19

  • Recently, an Israeli team arrived in India with a multi-pronged mission, codenamed Operation Breathing Space to work with Indian authorities on the Covid-19 response.
  • India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Israel’s defense ministry research and development team are working together to develop four different kinds of rapid testing kits for Covid-19 which can give the result within 30 seconds.
  • The tests include an audio test, a breath test, thermal testing, and a polyamine test.
  • In the audio test, a patient’s voice would be recorded and evaluated through artificial intelligence and machine learning.
  • In the breath test, the patient will blow into a tube that will detect the virus using terra-hertz (high frequency) waves.
  • Thermal testing will enable the identification of the virus in a saliva sample.
  • Poly amino acids test seeks to isolate proteins related to Covid-19.
  • The kits will be jointly developed after trials on Indian Covid-19 patients. The tests have already been tried on a small sample of Israeli patients.
  • The Israeli team has brought robotic equipment, and wrist monitors that will help doctors and nurses monitor a patient without increasing risks of infection to themselves.
  • The team has also brought 83 advanced respirators to help patients with severe symptoms.
  • The success of rapid tests will help India’s overworked health-care professionals, who are experiencing fatigue. It will also help to address the public impatience over the Covid-19 test.
  • The quicker test will help authorities to take quicker prevention measures, which will reduce the spread of the virus among people.
Source: The Hindu

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