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OpenVenTUM

Inspiration

During the Corona (COVID-19) pandemic it became obvious that a lack of healthcare workers and equipment can cause a severe impact in the fight against the virus. The rapidly growing shortage of ventilators is becoming of dire concern. What is less widely discussed is the concerning shortage of professionals to manage ventilators, as increasing numbers of healthcare workers are becoming infected, hospitalized, and dying. We were inspired by this problem to provide a cutting edge solution, which can significantly facilitate the work of the doctors.

What it does

Our platform provides intuitive interface which shows real time ventilator information for multiple patients on the same place, so that the medical workers can monitor the health status of their patients easily on the go. This tool will not only save time, but it uses AI to automatically monitor the health status of the patient from the information provided from the ventilators. Another special feature of our platform is that in critical cases, when the patients are more than the ventilators, the AI can group patient(unsupervised learning) with similar ventilator needs. OpenVenTUM covers all standards and requirements for medical devices.

How we built it

We built this application using react, java, python and various packages to ensure the secure and smooth work of our platform. We collect the information retrieved from the API of the ventilators and save it in data base. We also implemented Machine Learning using scikit-learn library which analyses the collected data and interpreted it in order to obtain maximum efficiency.

Challenges we ran into

We used a lot of new technologies and it was hard to start, but once we got used to them, we accomplished most of our goals.

Accomplishments that we are proud of

• learned new technologies
• get to know with ventilators
• teamwork
• fun

What we learned

Through this platform, we learned the importance of using data and providing it in a user friendly way to help and save time. It is of a great importance to arm the medical workers with the best equipment, so they can maximise their efficiency and save as many lives as possible.

What's next for OpenVenTUM

• get feedback and improve the current status of OpenVenTUM
• brainstorm ideas from doctors
• add more patient status measurements from other devices
• mobile application

References

• https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/mechanical-ventilator

System.out.println("We will come through this together!") #stayathome