HealthExec April 28, 2022
Researchers from two Swedish universities, Lund University and Uppsala University, have found that patient data and a smartphone app can help predict COVID-19 admissions.
The app has collected information from study participants about how they are feeling since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the results, recently published in Nature Communications, are promising. The app data can estimate COVID-19 infection trends across Sweden and predict hospital admissions due to COVID-19 a week in advance.
The data collected through the app was extensive, with more than 10 million daily reports from participants in COVID Symptom Study Sweden from April 2020 to February 2021. Participants reported daily, even if they were feeling well. The study aimed to develop and evaluate a...