Guiding Ebola Patients to Suitable Health Facilities: An SMS-based Approach
Computers and Society
2014-10-15 v1 Social and Information Networks
Abstract
We propose to utilize mobile phone technology as a vehicle for people to report their symptoms and to receive immediate feedback about the health services readily available, and for predicting spatial disease outbreak risk. Once symptoms are extracted from the patients text message, they undergo complex classification, pattern matching and prediction to recommend the nearest suitable health service. The added benefit of this approach is that it enables health care facilities to anticipate arrival of new potential Ebola cases.
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@article{arxiv.1410.3576,
title = {Guiding Ebola Patients to Suitable Health Facilities: An SMS-based Approach},
author = {Mohamad Trad and Raja Jurdak and Rajib Rana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3576},
year = {2014}
}