BlueDot was set up to monitor for, observe and predict risk of disease outbreaks, with a focus on providing early warning against disease spread vectors.
BlueDot is proprietary software-as-a-service (SAAS) designed to track, locate and visualise infectious disease spread. It uses natural language processing and machine learning to cull data from multiple sources, including official public health statements, digital media, global airline ticketing data, livestock health reports and population demographics. It updates every 15 minutes. Experts review the AI findings and create reports that are sent out. “We don’t use artificial intelligence to replace human intelligence, we basically use it to find the needles in the haystack and present them to our team,” Khan said [to CNBC].
Multiple data sources including public statements and movement vector information (e.g. ticketing).
BlueDot alerted its subscribers to an emerging disease risk in Wuhan 9 days before the World Health Organisation went public on the issue.