How to Solve the Ventilator Shortage

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/opinion/health/ventilator-shortage-coronavirus-solution.html

by ForrestN • 6 years ago

11 2 6 years ago

FTA:

Here, too, we can all drop our job descriptions to solve this problem. Big tech needs to rapidly build and scale a cloud-based national ventilator surveillance platform which will track individual hospital I.C.U. capacity and ventilator supply across the nation in real-time.
Such a platform — which Silicon Valley could build and FEMA could utilize — would allow hospitals nationwide to report their I.C.U. bed status and their ventilator supply daily, in an unprecedented data-sharing initiative. I have no doubt that the tech brain trust now sitting at home on Zoom can mobilize to get this done.

nimbleCOVID• 6 years ago

Is anyone working on this? As I see it, it's not too complicated a problem. Who's in? Someone to help build the database? ICU administrators would have to be on point to do actual counts and updating....tiles could be used for real time tracking if hospitals don't already have their own methodology...Amazon/UPS logistics might be tapped to do the actual movement of ventilators to address the waves...

How to Solve the Ventilator Shortage

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