DURE TECHNOLOGIES’ COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTROL DIGITAL OFFERINGS

REAL-TIME CASE TRACKING AND CONTACT INVESTIGATION

Allowing health providers to register suspect cases, conduct risk assessments, and track testing and treatment outcomes

GLOBAL MONITORING AND SITUATION ROOM DASHBOARD

A real-time analytical dashboard and situation room allowing outbreak monitoring and evidence-based decision

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM

360 degree approach to involve citizens and patient communities, allowing them to access the latest information and participate in global solidarity against COVID-19

CAPACITY BUILDING AND DECISION SUPPORT PLATFORM

Capacity building and decision support platform, leveraging the power of decision support algorithms, gamifications and AI-based chatbots
CORE SERVICE OFFERINGS FOR COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTROL
The world is grappling with the outbreak of COVID-19 that has dominated our attention since the beginning of 2020. During these challenging times Dure Technologies – a social innovation enterprise with a presence in more than 40 countries and a pool of more than 100 public health and digital innovation experts – is working closely with multilateral partners and programs across the world, developing pathbreaking digital innovations to fight the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dure’s offerings are already being leveraged by partners like Stop TB Partnership for their initial portfolio of tools and International Association of Providers for AIDS Care (IAPAC), for Fast-Track Cities initiative, to help support communities and people with TB and HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe.
Following are some of the key ready-to-use solutions provided by Dure Technologies for immediate implementation. These solutions can be self-configured using the generic COVID-19 templates that are being made available for free with the offerings:

REAL-TIME CASE TRACKING AND CONTACT INVESTIGATION

Allowing health providers to register suspect cases, conduct risk assessments, and track testing and treatment outcomes

GLOBAL MONITORING AND SITUATION ROOM DASHBOARD

A real-time analytical dashboard and situation room allowing outbreak monitoring and evidence-based decision

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM

360 degree approach to involve citizens and patient communities, allowing them to access the latest information and participate in global solidarity against COVID-19

CAPACITY BUILDING AND DECISION SUPPORT PLATFORM

Capacity building and decision support platform, leveraging the power of decision support algorithms, gamifications and AI-based chatbots

COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTROL APPROACH
Dure’s multi-sectorial approach that includes various stakeholders such as a country health program involved in screening, diagnosis, treatment and contact investigation of COVID-19 cases; global policy makers involved in monitoring real-time situation rooms and devising strategy for pandemic control at a global level, and more importantly general citizens, patient communities and high-risks groups like diabetes, TB, HIV patients, etc.
All this requires a much deeper engagement with the health systems in terms of evolving knowledge and awareness around COVID-19, precautionary measures, access to health system, psychosocial messaging and global solidarity to fight COVID-19.
Dure’s iMonitor+ platform – which has been leveraged by different countries and global stakeholders for disease elimination, community engagement, SDG monitoring and various other strategic health initiatives – also provides a key opportunity to monitoring and controlling of COVID-19 pandemic and help establish multi-stakeholder engagement towards this common goal.
360 DEGREE APPROACH FOR COVID-19 MONITORING AND CONTROL
Dure’s iMonitor+ platform enables a 360 degree approach towards disease elimination and pandemic control by harmonising programmatic efforts onto one single platform and data ecosystem. The diagram depicts how different modules of the iMonitor+ platform can be used by different groups such as health practitioners, policy makers and citizen and patient communities. The highly configurable, scalable, sustainable and modular approach of the platform enables a unique ecosystems leveraging data from various sources and activities and providing real-time insights thus helping timely decision making, planning and effective information dissemination.
The open source platform can be easily plugged-in in country’s data ecosystem thus enabling quick adoption and integration of the platform and usage within the country.

INNOVATIVE PLUG & PLAY SMART SET-UP APPROACH
The innovative smart configuration and back-end admin set-up of the iMonitor+ platform allows creation and management of COVID-19 project templates based on various Global and National guidelines.
Countries can leverage from the global recommended templates and can also adapt the platform to their country-specific needs, using the innovative and comprehensive smart set-up.
The smart set-up also allows configuration and creation of different use cases and services. The innovative form builder, alert configuration module, module for configuring dashboard and visualisation allows countries to make changes on the go and thus matching up to the evolving scenarios in the context of COVID-19 pandemic.
REAL-TIME CASE TRACKING AND CONTACT INVESTIGATION
One of the key strategy to curb any pandemic and reduce the death rates is early diagnosis and early treatment of individual cases and COVID-19 is no exception. Dure’s real-time individual case tracking and contact investigation module allows the health care system to monitor the patient through the continuum of care starting from screening, registration, risk assessment, testing, treatment and treatment outcome.
Since high risk groups with special condition and household contacts are vulnerable for COVID-19, the unique contact investigation module allowing to associate household contact cases to confirmed COVID-19 cases provides a unique approach to monitor not only individual cases but also communities most prone to contracting the virus.
The module can be used in any health care facility, national and state borders, airports and outreach/community setting. The module leverages the WHO guidelines for COVID-19 screening and referral protocols and established risk assessment algorithms used in various countries.

Registration and risk assessment

This allows register and administer comprehensive risk assessment based on travel history, comorbidity, contacts

Contact Investigation

This allows the practitioner to associate and screen contacts of a confirmed case

Referral and Linkages

The module facilitates referring the case for testing, treatment and further investigation and interventions

Alerts and Follow-up

Alerts allows tracking and follow-up for testing and treatment through the continuum of care

RISK ASSESSMENT

  • Travel history in last 14 days

  • Co-morbidity assessment

  • Contact mapping with confirmed cases

  • Symptom screening

  • Decision systems for risk profiling

CONTACT INVESTIGATION

  • Associate household contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases

  • Referring contacts for testing and treatment

  • Mapping of contacts with index

  • Alerts for following up on contacts

CASE TRACKING DASHBOARD

  • Prevention and treatment cascade

  • Real-time interactive drill down maps

  • Hotspot mapping

  • Alerts and notification

  • Performance indicators

Monitoring progress and spread of the disease across national and state borders in real-time is a key approach towards Global pandemic control. The interactive monitoring and situation room dashboard provides countries and global multi-lateral agencies key insights into the pandemic spread.
The platform supports data from various sources at such as WHO, countries and other open data repositories to provide key insights. The platform can be easily adapted to country specific needs by allowing the countries to directly integrate their country data in multiple formats and from multiple data systems.
The advanced data science and AI principals uniquely designed for pandemic control helps in better resource prioritisation, planning and predictive analysis

Interactive Charts

Interactive charts allows visualisation of data in interactive chart and graphs

Interactive Maps

Interactive allowing drill down from a global to a national to sub-national to facility level

Open Data Repository

Triangulation of program data with open data repository providing unique insights

Advanced AI and Data Science

Advanced AI and data science principles allowing accurate and evidence based decision making.

INTERACTIVE MAPS

  • Drill down maps till facility level

  • Correlation of data on a map

  • Time series animation

  • Multiple map types

  • Heat mapping and hotspots

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM
iMonitor+ community engagement module provides a 360 degree approach towards COVID-19 pandemic control by engaging directly with citizens and patient communities.
The platform uses advanced content management system (CMS) to create and disseminate information at the last mile, keeping citizens and risk groups updated on the latest awareness and knowledge contents.
The innovative way of engaging with the citizen through AI based chatbots provides a virtual help desk for countries and help address any queries posed by the general public on COVID-19.
The platform also allows citizen to participate in surveys, helps report confirmed cases and associated contacts and raise issues linked to COVID-19 related services like testing, treatments and commodities
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Information Dissemination

The platform allows content creation and dissemination to a larger audience in no time

“Near Me”

The “near me” functionality provides access to facilities and point of interests on a map

AI Chatbot and Forum

AI based chatbot and community chat forums allows citizens and patient communities to connect with each other and health systems

Crowd sourced survey

Innovative survey and case reporting is an innovative way to collect real-time data through crowd sourced model

COVID-19 SERVICE QUALITY REPORTING

  • Reporting quality of testing services

  • Reporting drug side-effect and adverse event

  • Reporting stigma and discrimination

  • Self reporting of confirmed cases

  • Drug and diagnostic test stock-out reporting

COVID-19 COMMUNITY MONITORING DASHBOARD

  • Real-time access to community data

  • Access drug side-effect and adverse event data

  • Interactive maps and hotspots

  • Module for responding to issues

  • Behavioral data

CAPACITY BUILDING AND DECISION SUPPORT PLATFORM FOR COVID
The COVID-19 control program includes public and private health care providers tasked with finding, testing, and treating people for TB as well as providing preventive care. The complexity of the program and diversity of implementers requires robust standardized approaches which ensures highest quality of COVID-19 care service.
For this Dure Technologies along with it’s various partners has designed an interactive capacity building and decision support platform leveraging the power of decision support algorithms, gamifications and AI based chatbots. The comprehensive analytical dashboard also allows to access the usage trend of the App by different user groups to better assess areas of capacity gaps within the health systems.

Information Dissemination

The platform allows content creation and dissemination to a larger audience in no time

Decision Support

The decision support system helps in systematically assess symptoms to guide health workers on interventions required for the client

AI Chatbot for Capacity Building

AI based chatbot allows health practitioners to get latest updates on COVID-19 related health delivery procedures and guidelines

Gamification

Innovative and interactive gamification facilitates effective learning on procedures

AI CHATBOT (Cody)

  • Dissemination of latest procedures and guidelines

  • Interactive chat for any queries for health staffs

  • Intuitive in-built decision algorithms

  • Virtual help desk

  • Help connect health staffs with the health system

AI CHATBOT (Cody)

  • Dissemination of latest procedures and guidelines

  • Interactive chat for any queries for health staffs

  • Intuitive in-built decision algorithms

  • Virtual help desk

  • Help connect health staffs with the health system

ABOUT DURE TECHNOLOGIES
ABOUT DURE TECHNOLOGIES
Dure Technologies PVT. SA. is a private company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with its development center in Mumbai, India, and engagement and country support offices in Delhi, Bangkok, Washington DC and Johannesburg.
Dure Technologies is a pioneer Organization, which focused on providing innovative Digital Health solutions for social impact. Dure has been implementing digital innovation projects for UN agencies like WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNOPS, to large donor organizations like The Global Fund, USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and to global implementation partners like Save the Children International, FHI 360, just to name a few.

Dure platforms and technical expertise leverage the global best practices from more than 100 projects implemented over 40 countries in key areas of public health such as HIV, TB, NCD, Nutrition, Reproductive Health, etc., combined with the deep knowledge and understanding of the Digital Health and data ecosystems from country to global level (including within WHO). Our platforms have therefore evolved to support digital initiatives in complex ecosystems and multi-stakeholder scenarios, especially in low-resource setting environments, and are complemented by an extensive collection of health-related Open Data repositories built over the past years.

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