Sabaidee

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  Health Symptom Reporting via LINE Chatbot

The Project

I'm Matt, and I work for a Thai social enterprise called Opendream. We've been building a pre-spillover zoonotic disease detection system since 2014 after the swine flu outbreak here in SE Asia.

But, our focus has shifted due to the urgent demand here in Thailand for contact-tracing and managing the influx of patients under investigation or awaiting COVID-19 test results. We've partnered with the Thai CDC and the Ministry of Health to launch Sabaidee: https://sabaidee.co/

Sabaidee Use Cases

1. Anonymous participatory symptom reporting for the general public

2. PUI management for hospitals

Both scenarios contribute to a larger data set (similar to CovidNearyou.org) that our public health officials use for estimating the scope of the outbreak here beyond what is officially confirmed by laboratory testing.

Hospitals use Sabaidee to onboard PUIs by reporting their initial symptoms, then track their self-reported symptoms over 14 days, and communicate with them if their symptoms worsen or if their COVID-19 test is positive. And since the patients have consented to sharing their symptom & contact-tracing information via Sabaidee, the hospital can immediately begin contacting close contacts and sending instructions to the infected individual.

All of our technology is open-source and we use a LINE chatbot for self-reporting symptoms (LINE is the #1 social messaging app here and 99% of smartphone users have it). We're at 25K public users and we're in a few trials with hospitals for PUIs. Thailand is currently in South Korea like situation, but this is likely to change in the next week. We're hoping Sabaidee has major impact on flattening the curve, and helps hospitals spend less time on managing PUIs and more time on saving lives.

Built With

• firebase
• javascript
• line