The Problem
Contact tracing teams face the unprecedented task of mass tracking - in the context of a fast-moving global pandemic. Most of this work is being completed manually, on paper.
This is incredibly inefficient due to the scale of the problem where the speed of action is critical.
Health professionals need a better way to both ensure care is provided to the right people quickly and leverage insightful data to slow the virus spreading.
Our Proposed Solution
A single platform that allows medical providers to document their patients and contacts in a centralized location, accessible by any contact tracing team.
How It Works
Medical providers would have their own account for their hospital/medical practice.
Medical providers would add their index patients as they test positive, patient notes and basic details.
Patient contacts can be assigned to the index patient and the tracing work can be documented.
Access to the system expands to grant access to any dedicated Contact Tracing teams to conduct the contact tracing work.
This would also provide the contact tracing team with an automated daily call list to track the status of each reported contact.
It would also allow for a seamless transfer of patients across medical providers.
This would reduce the amount of manual paperwork, the time it takes to manage a contact tracing team and also ensure the sharing of information can be conducted in a timely manner.
What Makes Our Solution Different
Over the past few weeks, a number of contact tracing solutions have been proposed.
Most of these focus on the general publics’ compliance and opt-in utilizing blue tooth tracking on their mobile phone.
Whilst, this solution is an excellent automated tracking concept, the reality of community compliance presents challenges for these solutions to be effective on their own.
Traditional contact tracing via medical professionals will still be required as part of their duty of care and it reinforces any widely adopted blue tooth driven solution.
Our solution could be implemented in the following situations:
There is no broad co-operation across a jurisdiction and an individual provider is looking for a more efficient way to manage contact tracing.
If any paper-based work is being done in this capacity, our solution can replace this.
If widely adopted could provide a visualization of viral spread, based upon reported contacts and a dashboard to understand patient increases in one location.
We appreciate that several countries may already have their own methods. Our solution may be most appropriate for countries, providers who have nothing in place and need a fast solution for this process.
Our core architecture and infrastructure has been developed over the past 3 years and can be deployed rapidly (2 to 3 weeks)
What an implementation could look like.
We can provide the following solution within 2 to 3 weeks and it could be implemented across an entire region if required
We can deliver a centralized database where you could have every medical provider input their patients and their contacts, symptom details, etc.
You could then see how many patients have been admitted into each hospital/medical provider location on one dashboard.
A contact tracing team could also be assigned to assist the medical providers to follow up contacts and keep track of them.
Within 3 to 4 weeks
We could then expand it to offer some visualization of how it's spreading based on the data entered, i.e a map view or similarly a tree visualization of cases.
Unlike other proposed solutions ours would work very well for medical providers to utilize or a contact tracing team.
The solution’s impact to the crisis
• Our solution is a viable option for any medical provider or region that has no centralized way of managing the process of contact tracing. More efficient and effective tracing.
• If a contact tracing team is in place to assist providers, this would allow one seamless system for information flow to occur between a medical provider and tracing team. Eliciting a quicker response and limiting potential spread.
• Assist the management of the daily workflow of a contact tracing team, automatically be advised who to call and when. It would reduce the management of a team to operate. Reducing the burden of managing a contact tracing team.
The necessities in order to continue the project
• We require a provider who has a desire to implement our solution. On that basis, we are in a position to adapt our existing systems.
The value of your solution(s) after the crisis
• Our system by design can expand and contract. In quieter times, our system can stay in place for more typical contact tracing such as HIV and STDs, etc. When a pandemic does occur, it can effortlessly expand up for a contact tracing team to take over the efforts.
• There is also a potential for this to be used in more high-risk areas and organizations responsible for implementing contact tracing in those crises.
• Training of the platform would require no more than 20 minutes and could be conducted via an online training session.
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