UW Medicine Seeks Testers For Outbreak Prediction App
SEATTLE, WA — The University of Washington School of Medicine is looking to recruit 25,000 people to test a new smartphone app designed to help predict the next outbreak before it happens.
The project, funded by the Department of Defense, has been in development for more than two years, initially designed to help track influenza and cold activity. Since the new coronavirus arrived, researchers have tweaked the app to also track COVID-19.
"Even though we're in the middle of a pandemic, it's actually a really useful time for us to collect information to build out the predictive signal, or the predictive algorithm, from the phone so that we can start to test it again in the fall and in the winter months," said Patricia Areàn, a behavioral sciences professor at UW Medicine.
The app named is called HIPPOCRATIC for short, a nod to the physicians' oath of ethics.
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