XLRI develops app for surveillance of people in home quarantine

Jamshedpur: Professors and students of the XLRI-Xavier School of Management have developed an app-based checklist for ease of surveillance of people in home quarantine. The checklist contains instructions and procedures a person and his or her family members, who were advised home quarantine, need to follow to keep themselves and others safe from Covid-19.
The business school said district officials conducting the surveillance can take care of the checklist easily during their home visits.
XLRI professor (marketing area) Giridhar Ramachandran said, “Nothing would be more satisfying for us as academics than bringing our knowledge to use for the larger good of the people. We are happy to facilitate the local administration in an emergency which touches people’s lives.”
The B-school also extended support to the district administration in developing a real-time dashboard that displayed key information and charts, which has come handy for the officials while discharging their Covid-19 duty. Besides, the faculty members and the students also developed an integrated web-based data capture and management system for integration of information from all collection and monitoring centres, including on people’s movement.
The integrated system is crucial in minimising repetition, standardising input data and helpful in automated report creation, thereby validating data integrity.
The institute has also initiated work on building a dynamic model for simulating the impact of the lockdown and the unlock processes on the district health infrastructure. Faculty members Munish Thakur and Alok Raj adapted the model from the one built by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, and worked extensively to show the impact of different scenarios when hospitals and their capacity were put under maximum strain.
“We have already implemented some of the tasks and will roll out more in the weeks,” Ramachandran added.