Infectious Disease Informatics Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health and BioDefense /

• Main Authors: Chen, Hsinchun. (Author), Zeng, Daniel. (Author), Yan, Ping. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Integrated Series in Information Systems, 21
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Medical records > Data processing.; Epidemiology.; Information systems.; Management information systems.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Informatics.; Public Health.; Business Information Systems.; e-Commerce/e-business.; Information Systems and Communication Service.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1278-7

Computer-based infectious disease surveillance systems are capable of real-time or near real-time detection of serious illnesses and potential bioterrorism agent exposures and represent a major step forward in disease surveillance. Infectious Disease Informatics: Syndromic Surveillance for Public He...

Table of Contents:

• Infectious Disease Informatics
• Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems
• Syndromic Surveillance Data Sources and Collection
• Data Analysis and Outbreak Detection
• Data Visualization, Information Dissemination and Alerting
• System Assessment and Evaluation
• BioSense System
• Real-time Outbreak Detection System (RODS)
• BioPortal
• ESSENCE Syndromic Surveillance System
• New York City Syndromic Surveillance Systems
• Early Aberration Reporting System
• Argus
• HealthMap Project
• Challenges and Future Directions
• References
• Subject Index.