UNICEF HealthBuddy

2020: As a part of the HealthBuddy COVID-19 platform for protection of residents of the countries of Europe and Central Asia

On July 10, 2020 kompaniyaeram Systems announced partnership with regional department of UNICEF over the countries of Europe and Central Asia (ROETsA) and joint development of the multifunction information platform "HealthBuddy COVID-19" for protection of residents of the countries of Europe and Central Asia.

HealthBuddy platform

The platform developed by the company integrated in itself functions of earlier created EPAM applications "COVID Resistance app" and multilingual interactive chat-bot UNICEF of ROETS of "HealthBuddy" and helps users to receive access to the reliable information connected with virus, to prevent distribution of false data and to become a source of recommendations about preventive and protective measures during fight against COVID-19, noted in EPAM Systems.

"Providing reliable data about COVID-19 to children, young people and families – an important component of fight against misinformation during a pandemic. We are glad to cooperation with EPAM which will allow us to finish functions and services of the interactive chat-bot "HealthBuddy", 'Afshan Khan, the area director of department of UNICEF over the countries of Europe and Central Asia noted'

As of July, 2020 the chat-bot "HealthBuddy COVID-19" is already available in 9 languages (Russian, English, Greek, Italian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish) and can be in the long term localized for use by national authorities and organizations of health care. With its help they will be able to notify the population on potential emergencies in the field of health care and to popularize the vital preventive measures, such as vaccination, etc. Among other functions the platform allows:

• to all users quickly to obtain important information in the field of health care, to exchange views, to prevent dissemination of false data and myths, to directly ask questions to health workers, to participate in polls at different stages of a pandemic, to independently estimate collateral influence of COVID-19 and to use this information for prevention and prevention of spread of a coronavirus.
• to bodies of health care to send notifications with recommendations to people with suspicion of a virus or the confirmed diagnosis. Users can subscribe for notifications to help to monitor a situation in real time.
• to workers of health sector to get access to the general library of knowledge with instructions for actions in different situations, information on new developments, drugs, methods of treatment and data on relevant monitoring of cases of infection. Besides, access to a feedback and questions from people will allow health workers to communicate quickly with them at all stages of a pandemic.

"We are grateful to an opportunity to become a part of the joint project with UNICEF on protection of children and families. Trace distribution of COVID-19 it is difficult as not all who are its carrier have disease symptoms. Besides, not all countries have an opportunity to carry out exact diagnosis of a disease and in large quantities to inform people on necessary security measures. All this aggravates a situation with spread of a virus. Integrating and expanding possibilities of our applications, we develop the platform which provides crucial and up-to-date information, helping to control spread of a virus", 'Arkady Dobkin, the CEO and the president of EPAM Systems noted'

HealthBuddy corresponds to the General regulations of personal data protection (GDPR) of the European Union and the Law on protection and responsibility for information obtained as a result of health insurance (HIPAA). For ensuring work of the ERAM platform will continue its technical support until the end of 2021.