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he challenges pinned by the CoViD-19 Pandemic have rather
Tintroduced opportunities of expansion in the scientific and tech-
nological undertakings of the University, thanks to the invaluable
contribution and commitment of its researchers and home-grown
scientists. With these, the University advanced significant innova-
tions that were geared toward community efforts in combatting
CoViD-19.

Maintaining its thriving research culture, ISU has remained actively
synergizing with local, national, and international institutions towards
sharing of technical, human and financial resources along with aug-
menting research practices in effecting socio-economic development.

Reinforcing the Contact Tracing barangay of municipalities.
efforts and Travel Authority In May, the University official-
issuance ly transferred its developed tech-
The lack of system monitoring nology to LGU Ilagan, becoming
in the region has been the most the pilot LGU to use the system.
crucial problem in tracing back the Since then, various LGUs in the
transmission chain of the pandem- region signified interest to adopt
ic disease. Responding to this, ISU the system for local implementa-
successfully launched the Health- tion. The Provincial Government of
Guard PH thru the Business Intelli- Quirino was the most recent ben-
gence Research and Development eficiary of the system, being the
Center (BIRDC) of ISU-Cauayan first in the region to implement in
Campus. a provincial level.
HealthGuard PH is a health The HealthGuard PH has been
information system that generates regionally praised for its innova-
data analytics report using report- tive contribution in the system-
ed contacts and medical profile of atic information management of The University
HealthGuard registered users. This contact tracing. With this, it has
extends public participation thru been highly endorsed by the Office advanced
significant
interactive online reporting, digi- of the Civil Defense-Region 02
innovations that
tizing the contact tracing efforts in (OCD-R02), which led to a collab-
the province and region. orate venture on enhancing the were geared
HealthGuard also gears con- system. As such, OCD’s “Region
tact reporting using web, text 02 Zoning Concept” has been toward
community
messaging and mobile app; locates integrated to HealthGuard’s inter-
efforts in
available quarantine site maps face, providing a more illustrative
of the University; generates info- mapping of CoViD-19 concentra- combatting
graphic reports of medical sup- tion areas in the region classified
plies of the University and munic- on respective degrees- Critical, CoViD-19.
ipal health offices; and generates Containment, Buffer, and Outside
heat maps of CoViD-19 prone Buffer.
registered HealthGuard users per

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