Microsoft has expanded its Text Analytics offering within Azure Cognitive Services. It's new offering, Text Analytics for Health, allows users to extract and analyze unstructured medical data. To create the feature, Microsoft trained its Text Analytics engine with a broad range of medical data sets including clinical notes, clinical trials protocols, and more.
Ireland Launches COVID-19 Tracker App
This week, Ireland introduced a COVID-19 Tracker app. The app uses the Exposure Notification API built by Apple and Google. The app is intended to help contact trace and slow the spread of coronavirus. The app is now available from the App Store and Google Play.