Current Situation
Proper inoculation can prevent illness and death, yet citizens are often not informed of the consequences of risky behaviors or outbreaks of contagious illness. Information may exist on agency websites but is not accessible via mobile devices, is often hard to find, and is not current.
Goals and Objectives
Promote health and prevent/reduce the spread of infectious and chronic disease risk through helpful, easy-to-find, and easy-to-access information. Prevent infectious disease outbreaks by issuing guidelines, coordinating public health authorities and enforcement taskforces, educating the public, increasing immunization rates for infectious diseases, and implementing contact tracing to alert those at risk.
Technology Deployed
Hardware: Smartphones, tablets, and wearables
Software: Cloud-based interactive data portals accessible via mobile devices, social media alerts via widgets, geolocation of visualization of episodes, and analytics and AI for predicting disease outbreaks
Services: Business service and IT service
Use Case Summary
Promote health and reduce infectious disease outbreaks and chronic disease risk by educating the public and deploying sophisticated analytics tools for identifying individuals at risk and for tracking, exposure contact tracing, and stopping outbreaks and epidemics. Align resources to those impacted, inform the public, and save lives.