iPhone app alerts you when sickness is nearby
Sickweather has launched a mobile app for the iPhone that will send a push notification to your iPhone when you enter a sick zone: areas near reports of illness gathered from social media. Its the first app of its kind to leverage big data from social media, along with Apple iOSs geofencing and notification technologies, to serve health alerts. Heres how it works: When someone publicly posts Ugh, I have the flu on Twitter or Facebook, Sickweather qualifies that report using a patent-pending process and then plots it on a map. When a Sickweather app user travels near that report (whether they are dropping kids off at school, traveling for the holidays, or stopping in their favorite cafe for a cup of coffee) they will get a real-time alert notification on their phone warning them of their proximity to flu. Sickweather 1.0 for iOS 7 allows you to view reports of up to 23 different symptoms and illnesses on a map, as well as four groups of illnesses related to Respiratory, Gastrointesti...