Air quality and translation projects get funded through Make It

Projects on air quality and translating patient materials have been awarded development funds through the
Bristol Health Partners Make It weekend on 17 and 18 October. The weekend, based around a ‘hackathon’ approach, brought together
more than 50 people from technology, health, sustainability and other sectors
to support and develop projects that address sustainability in health and care.
The weekend aimed to develop collaborative, sustainable solutions to local
health and care issues.

All
the projects worked on over the weekend and presented on the Sunday afternoon
were praised by the judging panel, which included Bristol Health Partners
Director David Relph, Bristol Natural History Consortium’s Savita Custead and
UWE’s Professor Jenny Ames. Two modest development funds were awarded to:

Air quality

Hannah
Gardiner, Lev Konstantinovsky, Nigel Legg and Evangelos Mantadakis came
together to support an open source air-quality initiative that builds on
AirPublic, BuggyAir and IoTAcademy groundwork in hardware and software.

Common
language

With input
from medical, technical and patient perspectives, Rik Boeykens and Kasia Pranke
developed ‘common language’, a platform for all healthcare
practitioners where they can upload translated versions of texts, and download
an app for patients to access these translations in a given language.