Up to a fifth of patients with Covid-19 contracted the disease while being treated in hospital for another illness.
TRAVERSE proposes a new technology to keep staff and patients safe, saving lives, and rebuilding public trust in healthcare environments.
What does TRAVERSE do?
Fear of Covid-19 has led patients to decline critical treatment in an effort to avoid hospital settings that they no longer deem safe. Even as the number of Covid-19 cases decline in many places patients with cancer, heart disease, strokes, and many others are delaying or forgoing critical procedures that could keep them alive.
We propose implementing a real-time tracking system which will monitor staff and visitor mobility in the hospital setting. Sensors are placed in each hospital zone so that data is collected about when and where a person is as they move through the hospital. In the event of a covid-19 positive case, we can then use this spatio-temporal data to perform computational analysis that makes causal inferences about which events were more likely to have caused the disease to spread.
With this information we can prioritise hospital management and resources where it is most needed; mitigating the spread of the virus and protecting staff and patients.
The Team
TRAVERSE is an idea developed by three UCL graduates during the UCL Student COVID-19 Recovery Competition where students were encouraged to develop innovative approaches to treat, prevent or mitigate the global disruption from Covid-19. We all have a passion for using technology to improve upon healthcare. Our backgrounds are in Medical Sciences, Psychology, and Computer Science.
Deena Seennapen
Advaith Veturi
Åshild Kummen