[[{“value”:”An artificial intelligence tool deployed by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in 2022 may have helped issue more than 5,000 alerts of infectious outbreaks to health authorities in real-time since installation, according to a study.
Developed by WadhwaniAI, a New Delhi-based healthcare AI solutions provider, the ‘Health Sentinel’ tool could have helped slash 98 per cent of manual workload, enabling a quicker detection of an outbreak and proactive public health response, findings published as a pre-print paper and yet to be peer-reviewed suggest.
Nearly 200 countries are legally bound by the International Health Regulations (IHR) to operate a national disease surveillance system. The IHR and World Health Organization work together in protecting global health security.
News reports in print, electronic and online media are scanned by media scanning and verification tool under India’s ‘Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme’ (IDSP) for unusual health events, which are th”}]]
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