HealthMap uses artificial intelligence and data mining to spot disease outbreaks and issue location-specific alerts (colored dots) on COVID-19 and other diseases.
It sounded an early alarm on the pandemic. By Adrian ChoScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.The international alarm about the COVID-19 pandemic was sounded first not by a human, but by a computer.
HealthMap, a website run by Boston Children’s Hospital, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to scan social media, news reports, internet search queries, and other information streams for signs of disease outbreaks.
On 30 December 2019, the data-mining program spotted a news report of a new type of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The one-line email bulletin noted