A cough detection device may comprise at least one microphone and analytic firmware used to employ methods of detecting, analyzing, and communicating the cough detection data. The analytic software may be updated to use the appropriate algorithms for an individual or corresponding demographic based on, for example, age and disease, with abnormal cough frequency components, abnormal cough frequency profiles, and alert thresholds. The cough detection device may be configured to communicate cough detection data to a server. The server may be operative to process and communicate the data to a third party, such as, for example, a physician. Systems may further be operative to provide a user interface (e.g., mobile or web applications) for interfacing with the platform. In embodiments, the cough detection may involve utilising the microphone to detect when a sound exceeds a first threshold, determining whether the detected sound is a cough, for example by comparing the detected sound with a baseline, incrementing a counter and if the counter exceeds a second threshold, transmit the data. In another embodiment a user profile is associated with cough detection data, a report is created associated with the cough detection data and an alert is sent to a third party.
