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Companies increasingly use artificial intelligence to map global infectious disease spread.

2020

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Both public and private companies have begun creating artificial intelligence (AI) systems to map global disease spread. One example is the company BlueDot, created by Dr. Kamran Khan, an epidemiologist and physician who was inspired by the impact of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 to create a company to understand how diseases spread globally.

BlueDot uses "natural language processing and machine learning to cull data from hundreds of thousands of sources, including statements from official public health organizations, digital media, global airline ticketing data, livestock health reports and population demographics. It’s able to rapidly process tons of information every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day" (Stieg, 2020).