Question

Short Case Study
Subject : Engineering Management
Topic: Engineers in Marketing and Service Industries

Find an application of engineering concepts and techniques to the health services from literature (past researches or studies, use the more recent ones), and write a summary describing it. You may also refer to applications in current events.

Include also the reference

Answer 1

Ans.

Arogya setu application is the best example where engineering concepts and techniques helped health care services to check spread of Covid19

§ It is Launched by Ministry of Human Resource Development
With aid of Digital India

Benefits of app
§ It help control the spread of coronavirus and make its information accessible to the common people.

§ It helps in finding out corona positive people present nearby.

§ After downloading,
app asks if you have cough, fever or trouble breathing etc.
If you do not have any such problem you are in green zone

§ To use the app the mobile phone's Bluetooth and location devices must be on

Whenever the user visits a crowded place, this app keeps sending messages from nearby mobile phones through the Bluetooth. When the user stands near
someone who is also a normal it shows green zone. But if that person becomes corona positive after 10 days, this app will alert you immediately.
§ This app also tells about hotspots, so that the user can change the route

Information Sharing structure

Your data(name, phone number, age, sex, profession and countries visited in the last 30 days)will be saved on a secure server managed by the Indian government-->“hashed with a unique digital id (DiD)

Other users will have no access to this information
• When two users come in contact, the DiDs will be exchanged and stored on each other’s devices.
App also collects location data of the user every 15 minutes, and this is said to be stored on their phone. Only if the user tests positive for Covid-19 or the self-assessed symptoms indicate it, will it be uploaded to the server.
All personal information collected will be purged from the app after 30 days if it hasn’t been uploaded to the server.
Information of those who have not tested positive for Covid-19 will be purged from the
server within 45 days, and for those who have tested positive it will be 60 days.
Now for those who wish to unregister their account, information provided will expire after 30 days.