National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has partnered with National Taiwan University's (NTU) Department of Geography to develop a geographic information system (GIS) based on emergency room (ER) patient data that actively detects the spread of infectious diseases early on.
By detecting abnormal ER traffic and combining the information with patients' symptoms, disease onset times, and location of residence, one would be able to actively analyze features of infectious diseases, predict spread patterns, or even trace the origin of the diseases before large-scale outbreaks occur.
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