A partnership between Fujitsu, Formwize, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Cloudsoft, a Scottish software and service provider, the ‘Cough-In-A-Box’ diagnostic test - based on research released in October 2020 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - has been shown to correctly identify 98.5 per cent of positive cases, including 100 per cent of asymptomatic cases.
The application uses artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose Covid-19 through audio recordings of a user coughing directly into their smartphone’s microphone. Analysing more than 70,000 recordings submitted by volunteers, which included around 2,500 from people confirmed to have Covid-19, the researchers from MIT were able to train the AI model to correctly identify positive cases.
Since December 2020, a team of Cloudsoft engineers have been working with specialists from Fujitsu, Formwize and the DHSC to convert the application to the cloud. This has allowed the...