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              Telemedicine Portal developed by IIT Jodhpur
Visiting a health centre or hospital for any kind of ailments has become a new challenge due to the high risk of possible COVID-19 infection. Doctors are also naturally cautious and sensitive about examination of patients. However, such situations provide opportunity for technology to usher in new solutions. At IITJ, Kunal Tawatia, an undergraduate student of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, under the mentorship of Dr Sumit Kalra developed a teleconsultation platform. Through this platform anyone can consult doctors for your ailments.
Website link:
https://telemedicine.iitj.ac.in/
IIT Gandhinagar researchers develop an interactive COVID-19
dashboard to aid optimised testing and post-lockdown operations
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has developed an interactive “COVID-19 Dashboard” that provided different epidemiological scenario-specific information at a city-scale. It was aimed at helping various stakeholders in optimised testing efforts and post-lockdown operations to contain community infection.
The dashboard called “MIR AHD COVID-19 Dashboard” was a city-scale project which integrated the complex social and transportation patterns with state-of-the-art epidemic spread models, in addition to testing and quarantining rates and contact tracing rates. As cities were to prepare for opening after current lockdowns, the recovery strategies had to account for social distancing, congestion-free transits and unusual traffic patterns these cities would witness with
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