disease control & prevention
15 Insane Things That Correlate With Each Other
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IBM Impact Grant to Shenzhen Center for Disease Control & Prevention
IBM provided an Analytics Assessment & Insights Impact Grant to the Shenzhen CDC to help further their mission of infectious disease prevention and control, shouldering the monitoring, alarming and treatment of emergency public health events in Shenzhen for the 12 million citizenry by building a self adaptive online machine learning module that provides cognitive-based modeling for epidemic disease prediction and analysis on case number and trend. The output of this work has allowed the organization to develop prediction models to help forecast seasonal flu outbreaks and provide information to citizens on affected areas. CDC organizations across China are now considering the implementation of this solution to help track flu and other infectious diseases.