Newton Fund - CityZen: Connecting cities to citizens

巴西是南美洲最大的国家，人口超过2亿，圣保罗是最大的城市，人口超过1200万。由于巴西人口迅速老龄化，为老年人和弱势群体提供有效和负担得起的医疗服务是该国日益严峻的医疗挑战。我们正在与圣保罗阿尔伯特爱因斯坦医院的医院临床医生合作，开发一个用于远程监控慢性病患者的技术平台，实现医院外和大规模的实时医疗干预。这将使用患者智能手机应用程序来帮助患者遵守医生制定的护理计划，包括提醒服用药物，医疗读数和预约，以及个性化的饮食和运动选项。链接的医生应用程序将支持医生根据实时患者信息对患者的健康做出可行的决策。这将改善慢性病患者的医疗保健和生活质量，并降低住院和医疗费用，支持联合国可持续发展目标3 -良好的健康和福祉。患者应用程序还将根据患者的医疗状况和整体健康状况，通过提高当地服务和活动的意识，帮助他们过上更健康和更好的生活，向患者推荐改善健康的选择。我们还在开发一个City Explorer Web应用程序，根据当地服务（如医疗保健和交通）对具有不同出行选择（如步行、公共交通和私家车）的居民的可及性，为圣保罗的Bom雷蒂罗和Higienópolis社区绘制热图。这也可以扩展到更大的规模。我们正在与城市规划的利益相关者（如城市规划师和开发商）合作，以便他们可以使用City Explorer来深入了解最有效的方法，以改善城市服务的覆盖范围，从而根据不同的人口统计数据最佳地满足当地社区的需求。我们正在加强CityZen项目合作伙伴之间的关系，分享所有合作伙伴的知识、技能和经验，并为所有合作伙伴制定商业协议。通过CityZen网站和在当地举办研讨会，我们正在开发一个CityZen网络，以加强圣保罗和坎皮纳斯市的医疗保健和智慧城市生态系统，并帮助巴西组织建立国际联系。联合国SDG 17 -伙伴关系

Brazil is the largest country in South America with over 200 million people and São Paulo is the largest city, with over 12 million people. Due to a rapidly ageing population in Brazil, providing effective and affordable healthcare services to elderly and vulnerable people is a growing healthcare challenge across the country.We are working with hospital clinicians at Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo to develop a technology platform for remote monitoring of chronic disease patients, enabling real-time healthcare intervention outside of hospital and at scale. This will use a patient smartphone App to help the patient to comply with the careplan set by their doctor, including reminders for taking medication, medical readings and making appointments, as well as personalised diet and exercise options. A linked doctor App will support the doctor to make actionable decisions about the patient’s health based on real-time patient information. This will improve healthcare and quality of life for people with chronic diseases, and also reduce hospitalisation and healthcare cost, supporting UN SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing.The patient App will also recommend options to patients to improve health based on their medical condition and overall health status by raising awareness of local services and activities that can help them to live healthier and better lives. We are also developing a City Explorer web application that heatmaps the São Paulo neighbourhoods of Bom Retiro and Higienópolis according to how accessible local services, such as healthcare and transportation, are for residents with different mobility options, such as walking, public transport, and private car. This can also be extended to a larger scale. We are engaging with stakeholders in city planning, such as urban planners and developers, so they can use the City Explorer to gain increased insight into the most effective ways to improve the reach of city services to meet the needs of local communities optimally, based on differing demographics. This supports UN SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities.We are strengthening the relationship between the CityZen project partners by sharing knowledge, skills and experience across all partners and by developing a commercial agreement for all partners. Through the CityZen website and by running workshops locally, we are developing a CityZen network to strengthen the healthcare and smart cities ecosystem in São Paulo and Campinas City and help Brazilian organisations to make international links. This supports UN SDG 17 – Partnership.