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