16-Sep-2021 | Market Research Store
The Emory Health Sciences have recently published a white paper that associates a new format of measurement tools and services that can double down as a monitoring and regulating source for controlling infectious diseases during their surge period without compromising any form of privacy and security measures. The team incorporated cell phone and Wi-Fi data that is routinely collected by telecommunication companies in order to reveal the notable changes of intimacy between their users who are diagnosed by a flu-like illness while protecting their anonymous status as the latter firms do on a regular firm.
The team quotes that according to the backdated data that they scrapped, the following study is a first major and rigorous study that is associated with individually linked collected data of cell phone metadata linked to actual public health data. The team shows that its routinely possible to continue on their based hypothesis without compromising privacy and security measures for regulating and controlling infectious disease outbreaks. The research team obtained their data with a major cell phone provider based in Iceland and analyzed data for more than 90,000 users encrypted cell phone numbers which represented about a quarter of the Iceland population.
The team further note that they were permitted to link cell phone metadata to 1,400 anonyms users who received a clinical diagnosis of a flu-like illness during the period of the H1N1 outbreak. The team notes that individual linkage is pivotal during this type of research. The team further goes on to investigate a collective format between routine behavioral approach of the users during pre-pandemic and post pandemic levels based on their mobility. The findings of this research study show that individuals on average who receive a flu-like diagnosis change their cell-phone a day before they receive and the two-to-four days afterwards the individuals make fewer calls.
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