Fundamental innovative solutions to face the health crisis in our country were selected among the best applied engineering interventions in the world by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs).
A platform to monitor population mobility during quarantines, a system to optimize the active search for asymptomatic cases in critical areas, a program to monitor the antibody response to the different vaccines against COVID-19 and a methodology to guide the allocation of patients among hospitals nationwide. These are the innovative solutions developed by researchers from the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and the Universidad de Chile, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, and Entel, which were selected among the finalists for the Franz Edelman Award 2022, an international award that since 1972 recognizes the best applied engineering interventions in the world.
These analytical tools, fundamental to face the health crisis in our country, were one of the six selected by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs) for this distinction that rewards the most important achievements in advanced analysis, operations research and management science. In 2021 the competition awarded the United Nations World Food Program and in 2020 Intel. The winning institution of this year’s contest, among which Alibaba, US Census Bureau, General Motors, Janssen and Merck are also finalists, will be announced in April.
Leonardo Basso, director of the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and academic of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, explains that “from the beginning of the pandemic, in ISCI we asked ourselves how engineers could help, from the analytical point of view, to fight the pandemic in the field. What we were looking for was to go beyond prediction with sophisticated models, and to generate innovative and creative tools that would allow, in concrete terms, to make better decisions and better use of scarce resources at all levels. We wanted to become a sort of ‘nerd’ second-line. And that is what we did in conjunction with the ministries and in alliance with Entel, and in a very interdisciplinary and cooperative manner”.
“This nomination is a source of pride for public-private collaboration instances focused on the development of agile solutions that help plan the efficient use of Chile’s critical resources. This collaborative work had a strong impact on the response capacity that we have had as a Government to face the pandemic; the prevention of contagions, the management of the capacity of the Intensive Care Units and the vaccination strategy against Covid-19”, said the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris.
Regarding this nomination for the Franz Edelman Award 2022, the Minister of Science, Andrés Couve, highlighted that “the work of this center of excellence [the ISCI] is an example of the impact that the generation of knowledge and the collaboration of the scientific community articulated by the Ministry of Science had on Chile’s strategy for the management of the pandemic. An exceptional contribution where research was put at the service of people’s health to save lives through concrete solutions for diagnosis, data analysis and monitoring of mobility in the most critical stages of the emergency”.
“Being part of the finalists of the Franz Edelman Award is a great recognition to the work of the Undersecretaries of Public Health and Health Care Networks together with institutions as essential as the Universidad de Chile, and, undoubtedly, reflects the importance of collaborative work in the development of scientific analytical tools that have been fundamental in the strategy to face the pandemic. Initiatives such as the collaboration agreement with the Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, which allowed to relate the mobility variables and the effective rate of infection by zone, to strategically orient the Active Case Search operations and thus ensure the efficiency of the testing, in addition to the study that helped to detect antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 - to demonstrate the immunological response in those who have received Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines, and which supported the decision to initiate booster doses in those vaccinated with Sinovac, are examples of the work and development of collaborative solutions that have been key in the fight against Covid-19 in our country", said the Undersecretary of Public Health, María Teresa Valenzuela.
Antonio Moreno, manager of Entel Ocean, pointed out that “this nomination is the result of an extraordinary scientific-public-private collaboration and the dedicated work of expert devices in search of new knowledge that would contribute to contain the advance of the pandemic. The result achieved by ISCI and our geointelligence device allowed us to transform the data obtained from our telecommunications network, in an anonymized and aggregated form, into information for the urban territorial analysis of the entire country, making available an open digital platform, capable of generating indicators with dynamic mobility metrics to understand the behavior of people in times of quarantine. This was the basis for the subsequent creation of multiple initiatives with MinCiencia and Minsal aimed at reducing the sources of contagion”.
High-impact innovations to combat the pandemic
At the beginning of the sanitary crisis, the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI), concentrated its work on the development of methodologies and advanced analysis tools to face the spread of COVID-19 in the country. In this context, ISCI signed an alliance with the telecommunications company Entel to process anonymized mobility data, and collaborated with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science to design solutions to different problems associated with the health emergency. This cooperation resulted in a series of interconnected projects that had an enormous impact on public policy and the evolution of the pandemic in Chile.
These initiatives, which contributed to shape the strategy deployed against SARS-CoV-2, were based on the use of advanced analytics of large datasets, work that allowed the generation of information and tools that have been, and still are, in use by authorities, as well as health officials and other areas. Of the set of initiatives deployed as part of this work, four are the ones that stand out in the Franz Edelman Award 2022:
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Fundamental innovative solutions to face the health crisis in our country were selected among the best applied engineering interventions in the world by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs).
A platform to monitor population mobility during quarantines, a system to optimize the active search for asymptomatic cases in critical areas, a program to monitor the antibody response to the different vaccines against COVID-19 and a methodology to guide the allocation of patients among hospitals nationwide. These are the innovative solutions developed by researchers from the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and the Universidad de Chile, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, and Entel, which were selected among the finalists for the Franz Edelman Award 2022, an international award that since 1972 recognizes the best applied engineering interventions in the world.
These analytical tools, fundamental to face the health crisis in our country, were one of the six selected by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs) for this distinction that rewards the most important achievements in advanced analysis, operations research and management science. In 2021 the competition awarded the United Nations World Food Program and in 2020 Intel. The winning institution of this year’s contest, among which Alibaba, US Census Bureau, General Motors, Janssen and Merck are also finalists, will be announced in April.
Leonardo Basso, director of the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and academic of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, explains that “from the beginning of the pandemic, in ISCI we asked ourselves how engineers could help, from the analytical point of view, to fight the pandemic in the field. What we were looking for was to go beyond prediction with sophisticated models, and to generate innovative and creative tools that would allow, in concrete terms, to make better decisions and better use of scarce resources at all levels. We wanted to become a sort of ‘nerd’ second-line. And that is what we did in conjunction with the ministries and in alliance with Entel, and in a very interdisciplinary and cooperative manner”.
“This nomination is a source of pride for public-private collaboration instances focused on the development of agile solutions that help plan the efficient use of Chile’s critical resources. This collaborative work had a strong impact on the response capacity that we have had as a Government to face the pandemic; the prevention of contagions, the management of the capacity of the Intensive Care Units and the vaccination strategy against Covid-19”, said the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris.
Regarding this nomination for the Franz Edelman Award 2022, the Minister of Science, Andrés Couve, highlighted that “the work of this center of excellence [the ISCI] is an example of the impact that the generation of knowledge and the collaboration of the scientific community articulated by the Ministry of Science had on Chile’s strategy for the management of the pandemic. An exceptional contribution where research was put at the service of people’s health to save lives through concrete solutions for diagnosis, data analysis and monitoring of mobility in the most critical stages of the emergency”.
“Being part of the finalists of the Franz Edelman Award is a great recognition to the work of the Undersecretaries of Public Health and Health Care Networks together with institutions as essential as the Universidad de Chile, and, undoubtedly, reflects the importance of collaborative work in the development of scientific analytical tools that have been fundamental in the strategy to face the pandemic. Initiatives such as the collaboration agreement with the Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, which allowed to relate the mobility variables and the effective rate of infection by zone, to strategically orient the Active Case Search operations and thus ensure the efficiency of the testing, in addition to the study that helped to detect antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 - to demonstrate the immunological response in those who have received Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines, and which supported the decision to initiate booster doses in those vaccinated with Sinovac, are examples of the work and development of collaborative solutions that have been key in the fight against Covid-19 in our country", said the Undersecretary of Public Health, María Teresa Valenzuela.
Antonio Moreno, manager of Entel Ocean, pointed out that “this nomination is the result of an extraordinary scientific-public-private collaboration and the dedicated work of expert devices in search of new knowledge that would contribute to contain the advance of the pandemic. The result achieved by ISCI and our geointelligence device allowed us to transform the data obtained from our telecommunications network, in an anonymized and aggregated form, into information for the urban territorial analysis of the entire country, making available an open digital platform, capable of generating indicators with dynamic mobility metrics to understand the behavior of people in times of quarantine. This was the basis for the subsequent creation of multiple initiatives with MinCiencia and Minsal aimed at reducing the sources of contagion”.
High-impact innovations to combat the pandemic
At the beginning of the sanitary crisis, the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI), concentrated its work on the development of methodologies and advanced analysis tools to face the spread of COVID-19 in the country. In this context, ISCI signed an alliance with the telecommunications company Entel to process anonymized mobility data, and collaborated with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science to design solutions to different problems associated with the health emergency. This cooperation resulted in a series of interconnected projects that had an enormous impact on public policy and the evolution of the pandemic in Chile.
These initiatives, which contributed to shape the strategy deployed against SARS-CoV-2, were based on the use of advanced analytics of large datasets, work that allowed the generation of information and tools that have been, and still are, in use by authorities, as well as health officials and other areas. Of the set of initiatives deployed as part of this work, four are the ones that stand out in the Franz Edelman Award 2022:
Fundamental innovative solutions to face the health crisis in our country were selected among the best applied engineering interventions in the world by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs).
A platform to monitor population mobility during quarantines, a system to optimize the active search for asymptomatic cases in critical areas, a program to monitor the antibody response to the different vaccines against COVID-19 and a methodology to guide the allocation of patients among hospitals nationwide. These are the innovative solutions developed by researchers from the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and the Universidad de Chile, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, and Entel, which were selected among the finalists for the Franz Edelman Award 2022, an international award that since 1972 recognizes the best applied engineering interventions in the world.
These analytical tools, fundamental to face the health crisis in our country, were one of the six selected by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs) for this distinction that rewards the most important achievements in advanced analysis, operations research and management science. In 2021 the competition awarded the United Nations World Food Program and in 2020 Intel. The winning institution of this year’s contest, among which Alibaba, US Census Bureau, General Motors, Janssen and Merck are also finalists, will be announced in April.
Leonardo Basso, director of the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and academic of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, explains that “from the beginning of the pandemic, in ISCI we asked ourselves how engineers could help, from the analytical point of view, to fight the pandemic in the field. What we were looking for was to go beyond prediction with sophisticated models, and to generate innovative and creative tools that would allow, in concrete terms, to make better decisions and better use of scarce resources at all levels. We wanted to become a sort of ‘nerd’ second-line. And that is what we did in conjunction with the ministries and in alliance with Entel, and in a very interdisciplinary and cooperative manner”.
“This nomination is a source of pride for public-private collaboration instances focused on the development of agile solutions that help plan the efficient use of Chile’s critical resources. This collaborative work had a strong impact on the response capacity that we have had as a Government to face the pandemic; the prevention of contagions, the management of the capacity of the Intensive Care Units and the vaccination strategy against Covid-19”, said the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris.
Regarding this nomination for the Franz Edelman Award 2022, the Minister of Science, Andrés Couve, highlighted that “the work of this center of excellence [the ISCI] is an example of the impact that the generation of knowledge and the collaboration of the scientific community articulated by the Ministry of Science had on Chile’s strategy for the management of the pandemic. An exceptional contribution where research was put at the service of people’s health to save lives through concrete solutions for diagnosis, data analysis and monitoring of mobility in the most critical stages of the emergency”.
“Being part of the finalists of the Franz Edelman Award is a great recognition to the work of the Undersecretaries of Public Health and Health Care Networks together with institutions as essential as the Universidad de Chile, and, undoubtedly, reflects the importance of collaborative work in the development of scientific analytical tools that have been fundamental in the strategy to face the pandemic. Initiatives such as the collaboration agreement with the Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, which allowed to relate the mobility variables and the effective rate of infection by zone, to strategically orient the Active Case Search operations and thus ensure the efficiency of the testing, in addition to the study that helped to detect antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 - to demonstrate the immunological response in those who have received Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines, and which supported the decision to initiate booster doses in those vaccinated with Sinovac, are examples of the work and development of collaborative solutions that have been key in the fight against Covid-19 in our country", said the Undersecretary of Public Health, María Teresa Valenzuela.
Antonio Moreno, manager of Entel Ocean, pointed out that “this nomination is the result of an extraordinary scientific-public-private collaboration and the dedicated work of expert devices in search of new knowledge that would contribute to contain the advance of the pandemic. The result achieved by ISCI and our geointelligence device allowed us to transform the data obtained from our telecommunications network, in an anonymized and aggregated form, into information for the urban territorial analysis of the entire country, making available an open digital platform, capable of generating indicators with dynamic mobility metrics to understand the behavior of people in times of quarantine. This was the basis for the subsequent creation of multiple initiatives with MinCiencia and Minsal aimed at reducing the sources of contagion”.
High-impact innovations to combat the pandemic
At the beginning of the sanitary crisis, the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI), concentrated its work on the development of methodologies and advanced analysis tools to face the spread of COVID-19 in the country. In this context, ISCI signed an alliance with the telecommunications company Entel to process anonymized mobility data, and collaborated with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science to design solutions to different problems associated with the health emergency. This cooperation resulted in a series of interconnected projects that had an enormous impact on public policy and the evolution of the pandemic in Chile.
These initiatives, which contributed to shape the strategy deployed against SARS-CoV-2, were based on the use of advanced analytics of large datasets, work that allowed the generation of information and tools that have been, and still are, in use by authorities, as well as health officials and other areas. Of the set of initiatives deployed as part of this work, four are the ones that stand out in the Franz Edelman Award 2022: