To Expand Frontline Testing, Tracking, and Supervision to Combat COVID-19
Impact Bridges Group is working with Fio Corporation to expand the response to COVID-19 beyond the few overburdened medical centres and labs to thousands of health posts, such as pharmacies, clinics, airports, and office towers, Fio Cororation’s solution, FIONET, enables:
1. everyday frontline healthcare workers to deliver expert-level diagnostic testing, triage, and tracing
2. supervisors to remotely see, guide, and adjust frontline healthcare activity in real time
3. public health officials to manage responses and resources to a new level of precision and promptness
4. uninfected people on a daily basis to return to work safely, preserving jobs and the economy
Fionet is a mobile platform enabling accurate, frontline diagnostic testing, real-time tracking, and remote supervision of frontline care. In the process, it automatically digitizes frontline activity.
1. Fionet Software and Mobile Devices for frontline healthcare workers: (1) accurate diagnostics on the spot for 3rd-party tests; (2) up-to-the-minute triage procedures; (3) real-time data capture and upload
2. Fionet Cloud for real-time analytics and connectivity between: (1) frontline healthcare workers and remote managers; (2) frontline data and 3rd-party databases and electronic health record systems
3. Fionet Portals on laptops and mobile devices for remote managers: (1) real-time tracking of frontline actions and results; (2) dynamically guiding frontline triage and test procedures; (3) real-time reporting
To get people back to work requires definitive, daily testing of individuals to determine who is well and can safely work. At workplace entrances, for example, personnel can be tested for the virus daily before entering, and feel secure that everyone else also tested negative. At pharmacies or clinics, personnel can be tested and certified for immunity. Fionet enables controlled decentralized testing, tracking, and tracing. Publicly visible, tech interventions may also be reassuring.
Fio can deliver Fionet to 3,000 sites and 300 remote supervisors and managers. Such a (scalable) deployment includes:
3,000 Fionet Mobile Devices for frontline healthcare workers. Fionet can read a rapid diagnostic test in seconds. Throughput is determined by healthworkers’ capacity to process tests. We estimate that, for 3,000 Fionet devices, healthworkers can process 400,000/day.
Platform customization and configuration
Integration of Fionet data into government databases and healthcare IT systems § Fionet Portals for laptops and mobile devices of authorized supervisors and managers
Training of healthcare workers, managers, and other stakeholders
Maintenance, service, and support
Fio Corporation is a global leader; founders previously commercialized medtech innovation to global scale
Since 2010, Fio Corporation, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, has been working with public and private organizations in developed and developing markets. Fio is a global leader emerging at the confluence of key forces reshaping healthcare: decentralization of care; mobile smart technology; big data aggregation; artificial intelligence; predictive analytics and insight; performance-based funding; globally affordable, inclusive solutions.
Fio founders previously built Canadian start-up into global champion in medical imaging software. Its platform was used for ~1 billion imaging procedures in MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, digital x-ray, image-guided surgery, HIS. Clients included Cerner, GE, Hitachi, McKesson, Medtronic, Philips, Siemens, Toshiba, Zeiss. Won Canada Export Award and Canada Business Excellence Award for Innovation, was #1 performer on Toronto Stock Exchange, listed in Profit 100, executed NASDAQ and TSX public offerings. 2020-04-10 Fio Corporation
Fionet was proven with 1 million patients with high-consequence infectious diseases in 12 countries. Examples:
US Naval Research Lab deployed Fionet for biothreats: “Proved to be an essential tool for both performing [rapid diagnostic tests] in the field and for monitoring from remote locations.”
Ethiopian Minister of Health deployed Fionet for controlling malaria: “The positive impact of Fionet into the malaria program has been evident and transformational, and the consensus is it will be pivotal to support the Malaria Elimination Project. The population benefiting surpasses 36 million.”
South African National Health Laboratory Services deployed Fionet for managing HIV: “Reduced diagnostic errors, prompted healthcare workers through correct testing and clinical procedures, monitored healthcare worker performance, captured data, and supported supply chain management.”
Clients: health ministries, aid agencies, private healthcare provider, multinational European lab company, multinational mining and insurance companies, US Department of Defense (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Naval Research Lab, and Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Fio Corporation operates globally in partnership with local distribution, service, and support organizations.
Proven in the field:
# of patients served: 1 million
# of data-points uploaded: 50 million
locations: 12 countries, 4 continents
diagnostic concordance with lab tech: 99.5%
# dashboards created for clients: 500
Fionet technology, security, privacy, and connectivity: Built to highest security and privacy standards. Advanced component technologies comprise AI and machine learning software, mobile devices, cloud database, analytics, web portals, and connectivity. Connects with multiple 3rd-party point-of-care devices, such as diagnostic and physiological measurement devices, and uploads all their data. Integrates with 3rd-party healthcare IT systems.
Contact Fio: Michael Greenberg, MD
+1.416.418.8505
Contact IBG: Terry Gray
terry.gray@impactbridgesgroup.com
+1.416.558.1954