Smart Cloud for COVID-19 Prevention and Control

随着我们进入省级和联邦重新开放三个阶段中的第一个阶段，AHS迫切需要有一个有效的方法来预防和控制COVID-19疫情的未来浪潮，直到我们有疫苗或完全控制病毒。 该项目的目标是设计和开发一个智能（增强智能）云解决方案，以满足这一迫切需求。 预防和控制有多种形式，在这个项目中，我们专注于两个具体的迫切需求：COVID-19疫情的预测和预防和控制疫情的建议。 我们通过融合来自各种来源的COVID-19信息和数据，进行深度数据分析和学习，并使用机器学习技术为COVID-19疫情提供预测和建议来实现这一目标。 阿尔伯塔卫生服务局（AHS）是加拿大第一个也是最大的全省范围内完全一体化的卫生系统，负责跟踪阿尔伯塔、萨斯喀彻温省部分地区、不列颠哥伦比亚省和西北地区的COVID-19病例。 此外，AHS还可以直接访问ABTraceTogether应用程序中的接触者追踪数据，这是第一个也是迄今为止唯一一个在加拿大采用的接触者追踪应用程序，下载量超过140，000次，而且还在不断增长。 我们与AHS的合作将使我们获得来自非常大地理区域的COVID-19数据和接触者追踪数据的凭证访问权，这为我们领导COVID-19防控研究提供了独特的优势。 我们将与AHS的合作者密切合作，设计和开发具有三个预期结果的智能云解决方案：有针对性的疫情预测、及时的预防和控制建议以及医疗响应有效性报告。 这将使医疗保健专业人员、健康数据科学家和政府当局能够做出明智的决策，并尽早有效地进行规划。 患者将得到更好的治疗和护理。 所有这些都会对我们的公众产生较少的负面和戏剧性影响。

As we are entering the first of the three-stage provincial and federal reopening phases, AHS urgently needs to have an effective way to prevent and control future waves of the COVID-19 epidemic until we have a vaccine or completely contain the virus. The objective of this project is to design and develop a Smart (augmented-intelligent) Cloud solution to address this urgent need. There are many forms of prevention and control, in this project, we focus on two specific urgent needs: predictions of COVID-19 outbreaks and recommendations for preventing and controlling outbreaks. We achieve this by fusing COVID-19 information and data from various sources, performing deep data analysis and learning, and providing predictions and recommendations for COVID-19 outbreaks using machine learning techniques. Alberta Health Services (AHS), as Canada's first and largest provincewide, fully-integrated health system, tracks COVID-19 cases for Alberta and parts of Saskatchewan, B.C. and the Northwest Territories. In addition, AHS has direct access to contact tracing data from the ABTraceTogether app - the first and so-far the only contact tracing app adapted in Canada with over 140,000 downloads and growing. Our partnership with AHS will grant us credential access to COVID-19 data from a very large geographical area and contact tracing data, which gives us a unique advantage to lead the research in COVID-19 prevention and control. We will work closely with our collaborators from AHS to design and develop a Smart Cloud solution with three intended outcomes: targeted predictions of outbreaks, timely recommendations for prevention and control, and reports on effectiveness of medical responses. These will enable healthcare professionals, health data scientists, government authorities to make informed decisions and to plan early and efficiently. Patients will receive better treatment and care. All leads to less negative and dramatic impacts in our general public.