Improve Visibility into Pandemic Updates, Notifiable Disease Outbreaks, and More

How to track notifiable diseases 

Gathering historical disease data to predict future outbreaks 

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an unprecedented toll to businesses worldwide.  We’ve seen first hand how a major health warning can hinder the economy and cause drastic shifts in demand. COVD-19 recovery teams have had to reassess their 2020 forecasts and pivot their demand planning efforts in order to simply stay afloat. 

With this, businesses must think about tracking notifiable diseases now so they’re better equipped in the future. Monitoring diseases and identifying early warnings of future outbreaks can help businesses anticipate the changes in consumer behavior and make smarter decisions around pricing, labor, and supply chain operations. 

Demand intelligence provides invaluable visibility into future demand anomalies that can drastically impact business projections. With this insight, teams can make business decisions before disasters and outbreaks hit.

Pandemic updates and alerts

Stay ahead of shelter in place announcements, lockdown updates and other pandemic alerts

With hundreds of thousands events postponed worldwide, teams must have a programmatic way to track pandemic updates and track when these events will come back. With PredictHQ’s event category Health Warnings, teams can now track pandemic and epidemic warnings. Each event in this category is verified in our data processing pipeline and then ranked by predicted impact. It’s designed to be used with our Community event category so teams can drill down into the specifics of a pandemic alert and track the following:

• Lock down commencements 

• Shelter-in-place announcements

• Restriction updates 

Get instant event notifications with PredictHQ Notifications. With the platform, teams can set up customized queries that will alert members when health warning changes occur or new health warnings hit our system.  

This helps business across all industries better prepare for the shifts in demand that will occur. For example, a fast food service can reduce staffing and inventory in preparation for a demand drop off. They can also proactively think about food delivery as an alternative acquisition channel. 

Other disease updates and outbreak alerts

Manage influenza tracking, measles alerts, and other diseases that can impact your business

Outside of pandemics, it’s incredibly important for businesses to track an array of disease alerts and monitor health changes. Influenza outbreaks and measles flare-ups are other examples of health warnings that can have a major impact on a business. 

With our health warning category, you can track biological hazards such as diseases and insect infestations as well as food poisoning warnings. When new alerts of outbreaks occurs, you can receive instant notifications delivered right to your inbox and quickly adjust demand forecasts to reflect anticipated shifts in consumer behavior.

The value customers can receive from instant event alerts can be invaluable. Knowing about a potential outbreak just a few hours in advance could save a business millions in operational spend. With Notifications, teams don't have to worry about missing any health warning event that impacts their business.

Use health warnings in demand forecasting

Improve forecasting accuracy by including health warning data into your models

Having historical data on how previous health issues have impacted business demand can help teams make strategic decisions when new health warnings are announced. PredictHQ is a market leader in demand intelligence and has a large database of historical data that you can use to train your models to better predict the impact of notifiable disease alerts and disease outbreaks. 

By correlating historical transactional data with previous issues such as epidemic warnings or lockdown restrictions, you can know exactly how that impacts your bottom line. This insight means your team can develop data-driven plans to respond to new notifiable diseases, pandemic alerts, and other health warnings.