Toronto, ON -- November 29, 2022. BlueDot Inc., a global leader in infections disease intelligence, announced today its partnership with Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation. Now, customers of Clarivate can access BlueDot's innovative technology rooted in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning to support in making educated, time-sensitive decisions in the face of biothreats.
BlueDot alerted organizations of the threatening emergence of COVID-19 nine days before the World Health Organization, and correctly predicted the spread of Zika into Florida, U.S. six months before it occurred. Since 2020, BlueDot has expanded its datasets and modelling to address the changing trends in endemic disease.
"As global epidemics emerge with greater frequency and severity, this partnership unlocks another step forward in building greater resiliency around the world", stated Dr. Kamran Khan, Founder and CEO, BlueDot. "We must all play a role to prevent the spread of disease and are proud to partner with Clarivate to empower organizations to provide the actionable insights needed to do that."
"Clarivate is committed to providing valuable, actionable intelligence to organizations of all types, ensuring more efficient preparation for future infectious disease outbreaks and the development of therapeutics for patients," shared Gavin Coney, VP, Global Head of Partnerships, Clarivate. "With BlueDot leading the frontier of infectious disease detection and assessment to help prevent and address the spread of disease, the partnership will enable life sciences customers to benefit from in-depth, unparalleled analysis and customer-focused alerts and forecasts."
Through Clarivate, organizations can access BlueDot's infectious disease alerts and risk assessments, in addition to a wide variety of datasets, analysis, and modelling. Spanning both emerging and seasonal diseases, BlueDot alerts users to new emerging or active diseases and provides the analysis needed to determine how to respond.
About BlueDot
BlueDot's intelligence platform empowers public and private sector organizations to rapidly identify, understand, and effectively respond to global biothreats. Combining human and artificial intelligence to track hundreds of infectious diseases and syndromes worldwide, it applies academic data science expertise to anticipate global spread and impact. BlueDot ensures clients know first when disease events emerge, are prepared to respond, can focus on what matters, and can act swiftly and confidently when needed. Founded in 2013 and used by the City of Chicago, Taiwan CDC, Air Canada and more, BlueDot helps clients make critical decisions with clarity and confidence. Learn more at http://www.bluedot.global