Innovating Under Pressure Webinar: Creating an App During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sarrah Lal, Assistant Professor of Medicine, recently moderated a discussion about innovating under pressure and the power of collaborations between industry and academia.
Sarrah Lal, Assistant Professor of Medicine, recently moderated a discussion about innovating under pressure and the power of collaborations between industry and academia.
Jamie Harsevoort and Anthony DiValentino, of Hamilton-based software company Lumedi, joined MGDII Health ICE Innovators in Scrubs students Sarah Abdel-Rahman and Mitchell White on the panel. The group recently created an app to track symptoms and social behaviour related to COVID-19. The conversation highlighted their app, Community Watch, and the collaboration process between the two groups.
“As much as this is a story about COVID-19, this is a textbook example about how this cross-sectoral approach helps move things further along, and in a much faster way, than any single entity could,” said Harsevoort.
Abdel-Rahman is an Integrated Biomedical Engineering student at McMaster University. White is an Ivey Business School student. They are two of approximately 40 students learning about health innovation in the Innovators in Scrubs program. Innovators connect with clinical teams in Hamilton and Burlington to identify healthcare challenges and develop solutions that focus on user-centred and iterative design.
“Friction pushes innovation,” Abdel-Rahman said as a takeaway from this project. “We have to be able to take the obstacles that life gives us and move forward with them. [Building] a platform that allows us to take data and information from society will not just be prevalent to COVID-19, but everything else that we have to face in the future.”
Innovation, ResearchRelated News
News Listing
Two Faculty of Health Sciences cancer researchers awarded Canada Research Chairs
Dept. Biochem, Dept. Surgery, Feature, Research
June 27, 2024
Elena Verdu appointed director of Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute
Faculty & Staff, Research
June 27, 2024