In 2025, it is not within months, but hours or days that a digital medical system needs to detect pandemics and bio-terror attacks — and respond effectively at the source, before it spreads.
Ebola drives today’s fears and media attention, but it’s far from a serious global pandemic. In one year, the 2009 Swine Flu (H1N1) pandemic was much more contagious, deadly and expensive. It started in Veracruz, Mexico. By the time it was discovered months later it was spreading around the world. In America alone over 60 million people caught the disease, 274,000 were hospitalized and over 12,000 died.
In 2009, we had the Internet, Skype calls, new media like Twitter and social media like Facebook. That era was like a steam engine next to the Digital Earth rocket we need to become.
In the first minutes after a threat is discovered…
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