A South African technology company recently launched a data-free artificial intelligence-driven (AI) health bot to trace infection outbreaks and hotspots.
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Cape Town- and London-based technology company Suppple says the health bot will provide digital healthcare assistance to the 54 member States of the African Union (AU) to ‘support the establishment of a new public health order for the African continent today’.
‘The AI health bot will revolutionise how we respond to healthcare crises in Africa through its data-sharing capabilities,’ says Suppple CEO Professor Eldrid Jordaan.
‘It can provide public and private stakeholders with access to healthcare data in real-time, offering a centralised dashboard of information to any government official or healthcare administrator in Africa.’
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Jordaan is the former special advisor the Minister of Public Enterprises and Advisory Board Member at Mxit. He is also the founder of GovChat, South Africa’s official citizen-government engagement platform.
Jordaan and Goitse Konopi, former CEO and chief data officer of GovChat, founded Suppple last year and incorporated and registered it in the UK.
In a joint statement, the co-founders said ‘Suppple’ was derived from a synonym for resilience, representing the creation of ‘social impact using public-private-partnerships’, IT Web reports.
The AI health bot learns from consumer input, aiming to be a strategic tool for healthcare and regulatory bodies in Africa.
‘We are delighted to provide real-time data analytics with the AU, and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to support the development and deployment of solutions that will ultimately revolutionise how we respond to pandemics and outbreaks in the future,’ Jordaan told Engineering News.
The chatbot is driven by an application programming interface, featuring an interactive conversational experience. Consumers can use it to learn more about their health symptoms or conditions.
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