IBM develops technology to predict pandemics
08 Jun 2007
1
Mumbai:
IBM has announced it has developed an advanced software technology that can help
predict the transmission of diseases across countries and around the globe to
the open source community. The tool will aid scientists and public health officials in understanding and planning more efficient responses to health crises, ultimately providing new tools for protecting population health.
The software, known as Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM), is now available for use through the Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework Project (OHF), hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, the non-profit foundation that guides the Eclipse open source community.
It
is one of the key technologies being utilised in the Global Pandemic
Initiative, a collaborative effort formed by IBM and over 20 major worldwide public
health institutions to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
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