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Tracking of Covid +ve with Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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    10Pointer
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    Science & Technology
  • Published
    21st May, 2021

Due to the rural penetration of the Covid pandemic in Bihar, the State has developed a first of its kind initiative by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the country to track Covid positive cases under treatment at home.

Context

Due to the rural penetration of the Covid pandemic in Bihar, the State has developed a first of its kind initiative by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the country to track Covid positive cases under treatment at home.

About the AI tracking method

  • The system is called “Home Isolation Tracking (HIT) Covid”.

  • It is based on artificial intelligence.

  • It is an app-based system.

    • The App was designed and by Bihar IT Department and Bihar Electronics Limited (Beltron) in coordination with the Health Department.

    • The most important functionality of the app is to transfer the details of all critical patients to the nearest authority.

  • It will help the authorities

    • to track the every minute details of the corona patients

    • geo-fence the home

  • to reduce the time of data  transferring between one process to another process

AI and Covid

  • The ongoing development in AI and Machine Learning has significantly improved treatment, medication, screening, prediction, forecasting, contact tracing, and drug/vaccine development process for the Covid-19 pandemic and reduce the human intervention in medical practice.
  • Most of the models are not deployed enough to show their real-world operation, but they are still up to the mark to tackle the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic.
  • The relation with health care begins with the evolution of the first expert system called MYCIN developed in 1976.
    • MYCIN was designed to use 450 rules collected from a medical expert to treat bacterial infection by suggesting antibiotics to the patients.
  • Recent studies evident on the prospect of ML and AI technology for the various pandemic outbreak, it supports healthcare experts in various communicable diseases (SARS, EBOLA, HIV, COVID_19) and non-communicable diseases (Cancer, Diabetic, Heart disease, and Stroke)  outbreak.

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