CHARLOTTE — Tresata Inc. launched its first consumer app last week to help combat COVID-19.
The app, HEALTHi, uses public data to determine risk at a county-by-county level. It assigns risk scores based on the average number of people infected by an already infectious person at a given time. Scores higher than 1.0 constitute a high risk. Mecklenburg County, for example, is scored at 1.12.
[ READ MORE: North Carolina to get nearly 3.2M BinaxNOW virus tests ]
It also factors in the Tresata Recovery Index, which calculates the velocity at which the virus spreads.
“This is all part of an overall strategy to try and add another front, specifically a data front, in our collective fight against COVID-19,” said Brittany Box, chief sales and marketing officer. “Wherever intelligence software can solve a big challenge, that’s where we’re going to be developing apps like this.”