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According to an Amnesty International investigation, personal information, including names, national ID numbers, health status and location data could have been exposed.
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UK data analytics and AI specialists Deeper Insights have launched a free research discovery app to keep medical professionals abreast of recent data on COVID-19. The ‘Covid Insights’ app will act as a centralised database for all research papers produced around COVID-19, enabling clinicians to find the information they need on the virus quickly and efficiently.
WHY IT MATTERS
As thousands of new scientific articles are published about COVID-19 every week, tech start-up Deeper Insights have stepped forward to ease medical professionals’ access to up-to-date information on the virus. The Covid Insights app, available on all web or mobile browsers, functions as an AI-powered search engine that helps users identify relevant scientific literature on the virus upon inputting keywords and phrases.
The platform utilises the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, or CORD-19, to navigate over 128,000 scientific research papers that have been produced on the virus since January 2020. It uses machine learning along a knowledge graph to establish the relevance of results. These are then aligned to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metaontolgy, ensuring full clinical understanding through a standardised medical language.
Source: www.healthcareitnews.com
As the world grapples with COVID-19, every ounce of technological innovation and ingenuity harnessed to fight this pandemic brings us one step closer to overcoming it. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are playing a key role in better understanding and addressing the COVID-19 crisis. Machine learning technology enables computers to mimic human intelligence and ingest large volumes of data to quickly identify patterns and insights.
In the fight against COVID-19, organizations have been quick to apply their machine learning expertise in several areas: scaling customer communications, understanding how COVID-19 spreads, and speeding up research and treatment.
Enabling organizations to scale and adjust
Every kind of organization, whether small or large, public or private, is finding new ways to operate effectively and to meet the needs of their customers and employees as social distancing and quarantine measures remain in place. Machine learning technology is playing an important role in enabling that shift by providing the tools to support remote communication, enable telemedicine, and protect food security.
For healthcare and government institutions, that includes using machine learning-enabled chatbots for contactless screening of COVID-19 symptoms and to answer questions from the public. One example is Clevy.io, a French start-up and AWS customer, which has launched a chatbot to make it easier for people to find official government communications about COVID-19. Powered by real-time information from the French government and the World Health Organization, the chatbot assesses known symptoms and answers questions about government policies. With almost 3 million messages sent to-date, this chatbot is able to answer questions on everything from exercise to an evaluation of COVID-19 risks, without further straining the resources of healthcare and government institutions. French cities including Strasbourg, Orléans and Nanterre are using the chatbot to decentralize the distribution of accurate, verified information.
Source: www.weforum.org
A half-dozen academic studies have been exploring whether the constant stream of data that wearables gather about our bodies offers any clue about who has caught the coronavirus. The idea is to detect deviations from what is "normal" fo
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