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US 11,309,091 B2Granted
Systems and methods for contagious illness surveillance and outbreak detection
AssigneeKinsa, Inc.
InventorInder Raj Singh
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Abstract
Systems and methods for population health surveillance utilizing a network of smart thermometers is provided. Based on the geolocated user data provided by the smart thermometers, contagious illness can be forecasted for various population nodes. Population nodes can be provided at various levels of granularity. Geographic or population specific early warning signals can be generated based on detected outbreaks of contagious illness.
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An illness detection and tracking computing system, comprising:
- a plurality of temperature sensing probes, wherein each of the temperature sensing probes is configured to communicate with an associated mobile computing device;
- the illness detection and tracking computing system, wherein the illness detection and tracking computing system is in networked communication with each of the associated mobile computing devices, and wherein the illness detection and tracking computing system is to:
- receive user data from each of over one thousand mobile computing devices via network communications, wherein the user data received from each of the over one thousand mobile computing devices comprises a geolocation of the respective mobile computing device, a user temperature reading of a user as collected by the associated temperature sensing probe, and a time stamp associated with the temperature reading;
- store the user data received from the over one thousand mobile computing devices in a data store, wherein the user of each respective mobile computing device is associated with a population node;
- based on the user data in the data store, determine in real-time incidences of fever-induced illness within the population node;
- generate an influenza forecast for a time interval based on the determined incidences of fever-induced illness;
- subsequent to generation of the influenza forecast, receive user data over the time interval from a plurality of the mobile computing devices via network communications, wherein the user data received from each of the plurality of mobile computing devices comprises a geolocation of the mobile computing device, a user temperature reading as collected by the associated temperature sensing probe, and a time stamp associated with the temperature reading, wherein each the mobile computing devices is associated with the population node;
- determine in real-time incidences of fever-induced illness within the population node based on the user data received over the time interval;
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- when the determined incidences of fever-induced illness within the population node exceeds the influenza forecast by a threshold amount, generate an illness signal for the population node, wherein the illness signal is available for consumption by a third-party application via network communications through an application programming interface of the illness detection and tracking computing system;
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- provide the generated illness signal for the population node to a third-party recipient.
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An illness detection and tracking method, comprising:
- receiving, by an illness detection and tracking computing system, a threshold biometric rate of change for a population node;
- receiving, by the illness detection and tracking computing system, user data collected in real-time from at least one thousand biometric collection devices, wherein the user data received from each of the at least one thousand biometric collection devices comprises a biometric reading for a user as collected by the biometric collection device, a geolocation of the user, and a time stamp associated with each biometric reading;
- store the user data collected from the at least one thousand biometric collection devices in a data store, wherein the user of each biometric collection device is a member of the population node;
- based on the user data in the data store, determining in real-time, by the illness detection and tracking computing system, a real-time biometric rate of change for the population node;
- comparing, by the illness detection and tracking computing system, the determined real-time biometric rate of change for the population node to the threshold rate of change for the population node;
- when the determined real-time biometric rate of change exceeds the threshold rate of change for the population node, generating, by the illness detection and tracking computing system, an illness signal for the population node;
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- providing, by the illness detection and tracking computing system, the illness signal to a third party application via network communications through an application programming interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.