AIME
Using big data & AI to predict time and location of infectious disease outbreaks in real time.
AIME, Artificial Intelligence and Medical Epidemiology, is a company out of Singularity University. AIME creates an index to forewarn government agencies, non-government organizations, communities and medical practitioners of potential outbreaks of dengue fever. The technology enables focused preventative public health efforts to reduce infection, improve quality of life, increase economic productivity and save lives. During tests of their dengue prediction platform in Malaysia and Brazil, AIME predicted where outbreaks would occur with 84-88% accuracy in advance of the outbreak. Since January, AIME has been working with Viva Rio, a Brazil-based NGO, and the government of San Paulo on a pilot program focused on preventing the spread of Zika and dengue virus in Brazil—just in time for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The team is working to define future research requirements to be incorporated into the decision-making process of public health officials in the city of San Paulo.