Harvard Medical School Professor of Biomedical Informatics worked on a report, where his team used the in-house developed tool, designed to locate the potential beneficiary for providing the vaccine on demand, in partnership with an American online transportation network company. The aim was to deliver influenza vaccinations to people in the US cities of Boston, New York, Washington and Chicago one day in 2014. Working model The model functions on detailed information of cities – linking it with real-time data of prospective drivers, passengers, and road conditions; simplifying decision-making ; and presenting drivers with manageable options.
In short, it establishes, digitizes and stores information that enables relationships to be established between prospective drivers and passengers. The transportation app and social media users in those cities were informed by e-mail that they…
