Smart Cloud for COVID-19 Prevention and Control

由于我们正在进入三个阶段的省和联邦重新开放阶段中的第一个阶段，AHS迫切需要有一种有效的方法来预防和控制未来的新冠肺炎疫情浪潮，直到我们有了疫苗或完全控制病毒。该项目的目标是设计和开发智能(增强智能)云解决方案，以满足这一迫切需求。预防和控制的形式很多，在这个项目中，我们重点关注两个具体的迫切需求：对新冠肺炎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新冠肺炎信息和数据，进行深入的数据分析和学习，并使用机器学习技术为新冠肺炎疫情提供预测和建议，从而实现了这一点。 艾伯塔省医疗服务系统是加拿大第一个也是最大的跨省、完全集成的医疗系统，追踪艾伯塔省、不列颠哥伦比亚省萨斯喀彻温省部分地区和西北地区的新冠肺炎病例。此外，AHS还可以直接访问ABTraceTogether应用程序的联系人跟踪数据-这是第一款也是迄今为止唯一一款在加拿大改编的联系人跟踪应用程序，下载量超过140,000次，而且还在不断增加。我们与AHS的合作将使我们获得从非常大的地理区域获得新冠肺炎数据和接触者追踪数据的凭据，这使我们在领导新冠肺炎防控研究方面拥有独特的优势。 我们将与AHS的合作伙伴密切合作，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关于医疗响应有效性的报告。这些将使医疗保健专业人员、卫生数据科学家和政府当局能够做出明智的决定，并及早有效地制定计划。患者将得到更好的治疗和护理。所有这些都会在我们的公众中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.