Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGDSince the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, public health protection agencies have been flooded with data. All this information has to be entered, harmonized, and consolidated, yet many of these organizations lack the necessary software and staff. Employees need to search in legacy computer systems—sometimes manually—for data, or compare lists to find certain individuals, trace their contacts, and consolidate these data. These tasks take considerable time and effort, exacerbating personnel shortages and adding to employee and doctor workloads.
CorASiV digitally processes the data entered by public health agencies in compliance with data protection regulations, and visualizes the information in diverse ways. It displays on a map all the individuals whose data have been captured—with their place of residence and their current infection status—enabling each agency to assess the area under their supervision for possible local correlations.
The software solution visually depicts infection progression over time by identifying people who have contracted Covid-19 within similar periods. This allows staff at the health institutes to gain a more precise overview of how the disease is spreading—all at the press of a key. The map visualization helps health professionals to better understand the infection process, and to manage mitigation efforts in a more timely, targeted way.