track influenza-like illness
Here's How This AI-Enabled Smart Thermometer Can Track Influenza-Like Illness
TOPSHOT - Irish rock band U2 singer Bono gestures at Lyon's city hall, central eastern France, on ... [ ] October 9, 2019, during the funding conference of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The fund has asked for $14 billion, an amount it says would help save 16 million lives, avert "234 million infections" and place the world back on track to meet the UN objective of ending the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria within 10 years. An FDA-cleared smart thermometer powered with artificial intelligence (AI) from Kinsa can estimate influenza-like illness across the US in real-time and predict a pattern three weeks before it's identified. To create a real-time illness-signal Kinsa aggregates tens of millions of anonymized data inputs from close to a million US households with a Kinsa thermometer and applies AI to triage illnesses based on severity, duration and contagiousness. From this data, Kinsa was able to create a real-time health map using their smart thermometer which serves as a geo-precise signal for tracking illness.