A platform for disease surveillance and outbreak tracking is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This platform could prove to be very useful for agencies working to control the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), in populations.
Conduent, a New Jersey-based provider of business process services and solutions, announced this week that its Maven platform is now available on AWS. A new module was added to the platform recently to track and report on coronavirus cases.
Conduent reports that Maven is used by approximately 40 organizations, mostly in the United States to manage cases of more than 90 communicable disease. It has been used to help contain many epidemics, including Ebola.
Conduent will waive the software license fee for Maven COVID-19 module until June 30, 2020 in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 within the United States. This is available to qualified state- or territorial-level public-health agencies.
“Maven on AWS” will digitize the tracing and reporting of people who have come in contact with infected persons. This will make it easier for public health agencies and other organizations to quickly implement their response protocols to curtail spread of infection and better serve large communities while reducing costs,” stated Mark Brewer, president and CEO of Conduent’s Global Public Sector Solutions group.
Brewer stated that rapid deployment of Maven to the secure and resilient AWS cloud offers new levels of agility, scalability, and speed, which helps to accelerate the implementation process for healthcare organizations.
He said that hosting Maven on AWS speeds up the process for organizations and health agencies to conduct contact tracing across entire countries, states, counties, cities, or regions securely and at scale.
Maven uses the AWS Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic to Maven’s application that runs on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. To simplify setup and lower database management costs, the Maven COVID-19 module uses Amazon Relational Database Services for MySQL (Amazon RDS).
“AWS is supporting healthcare and life sciences customers and their partners, including government agencies by enabling them increase the rate and scope at which they can adopt new and existing solutions for the industry, speeding the delivery of insight and being able to intervene in critical care moments,” said Shez Parovi, M.D. Shez Partovi, Worldwide Director of Healthcare in AWS Life Sciences and Genomics group. Conduent’s Maven platform provides contact tracing information that will allow public health agencies to respond quickly to COVID-19. This will ensure that the right healthcare providers, clinicians, and patients can take action.
Maven supports real-time collaboration between health care professionals and experts. Secure and ethical information sharing is essential to “flatten” the curve of highly contagious diseases such as the coronavirus. The platform automates the integration and analysis of disparate information sources including lab results and patient reports.
The company explained that Maven’s COVID-19 module allows individuals to digitally reach out to people to confirm if their symptoms are COVID-19-related. Doctors and public health workers can “expeditiously take action” if a case is suspected. However, they are not allowed to contact the person.
“The Maven insight automates the ability to combine provider intelligence and intelligence,” the company stated. “Enabling a consistent and organised response and the ability issue mandatory reports to authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC),” it added.
