Problem​

  • Medical personnel is at risk of infection when interacting with COVID-19 patients during testing.​
  • Testing requires use of large amount of PPE​
  • FDA approved self-administering of test, but only on-site a testing facility​

Solution​

  • Automate drive-thru testing without exposing medical personnel​
  • Safe delivery and collection of sample kits ​
  • Monitoring with video camera​

Status​

  • Collaboration involving  University of Maryland, LCSR, and CNH ​
  • Created concepts​
  • Currently designing prototypes​

Investigators

Johns Hopkins University
Bisi Bell, Iulian Iordachita, Jeremy Brown, Kevin Gilboy, Emad Boctor, Jin Kang, Axel Krieger​

University of Maryland
T. Fleiter, J. Ge, L. Al-Zogbi, H. Saeidi, A. Krieger​

Children’s National Hospital
Michael Hsieh