Healthcare IT News April 27, 2023
The new APFIT funding enables DoD to further the Defense Innovation Unit’s use of algorithms to analyze biometric data from commercial wearables and predict infections up to 48 hours before service members’ symptoms appear.
New funding from Congress’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies initiative will enable the Department of Defense Rapid Assessment of Threat Exposure project with additional investment, based on its success in demonstrating that the use of artificial intelligence to leverage data from wearables could predict COVID-19 and other infections 2.3 days prior to diagnostic testing.
WHY IT MATTERS
Developed in partnership with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the DoD has trained, tested and validated a predictive algorithm, according to a Defense Innovation Unit...
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