Novartis

Novartis and dHealth, together with the University of Basel and the Swiss TPH—partnered to develop a COVID-19 module that would assist with tracking and subduing SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks.

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Novartis and dHealth developed a COVID-19 module intended to be used to track COVID-19 outbreaks. It gathers users’ symptoms, provides recommendations on how to respond to them, and more. 

The app has been designed to utilize positive COVID-19 diagnoses at point-of-care to immediately inform all recent contacts of the patients positively diagnosed with COVID-19 so that they can self-isolate, and monitor their symptoms remotely via daily questionnaires. 

This feat was accomplished through a Private-Public Partnership (PPP) with two other partners—the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH).

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Since the pandemic's end, the developed module's initial purpose has been defunct. However, it can easily be appropriated for other diseases—which is the current goal of the dHealth team.

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