Researchers Say They Have Developed A Flu-Prediction App

The Triangle (NC) Business Journal (8/24, Ohnesorge, Subscription Publication) reported in “Techflash” that researchers from Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill “say they’ve developed a flu-prediction app.” Investigators partnered “to develop a model that would allow them to predict the spread of influenza from one person to the next over time.” In theory, “health care providers could use the data to alert at-risk patients before they get sick – even encouraging them to stay at home to avoid passing the germs forward.”