H1N1 Swine Flu Virus Now Located by New Iphone Application
September 10, 2009 by Braniff Watson
Filed under Health & Fitness
A new iPhone application, manufactured by researchers at Childrens Hospital Boston in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, permits users to trace and report outbreaks of infectious sicknesses, for example.
The application, “Outbreaks Near Me,” builds on the mission and proved capacity of HealthMap, a Web resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about rising infectious illnesses, and offers a new, contextualized view of a user’s precise location locating outbreaks that have been reported in the area of the user and offering the opportunity to search for further outbreak information by location or sickness.
“We hope people will find the new app to be a useful source of outbreak data domestically, nationally, and globally,” claims HealthMap founder John Brownstein, PhD, help professor in the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program ( CHIP ). “As people are supplied with extra info and perception of infectious sickness, the hope is they’ll become more anxious and active about public health.”
This can enable people in cities and states around the world to have interactions with the HealthMap team and take part in the public health surveillance process. They will also get a chance to track the virus and get the latest updates form the application
Users may take footage of eventualities and eventualities of, and / or leading to, sickness with their iPhone and submit them to the HealthMap system for review and eventual posting as a caution on the global map.
“This is grassroots, participatory epidemiology,” claims HealthMap founder Clark Freifeld, a Doctorate student from MIT Media Lab and research software developer at CHIP.
In enabling collusion in surveillance, we also expect to extend worldwide coverage and identify outbreaks earlier.”.
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