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 eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Integrated Series in Information Systems, 21
• Subjects: Medicine.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Public health.; Health informatics.; Epidemiology.; Computers.; E-commerce.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Informatics.; Public Health.; IT in Business.; e-Commerce/e-business.; Information Systems and Communication Service.

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:

• SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS
• Infectious Disease Informatics: An Introduction and An Analysis Framework
• Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems
• Syndromic Surveillance Data Sources and Collection Strategies
• Data Analysis and Outbreak Detection
• Data Visualization, Information Dissemination, and Alerting
• System Assessment and Evaluation
• SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM CASE STUDIES
• BioSense
• RODS
• BioPortal
• ESSENCE
• New York City Syndromic Surveillance Systems
• EARS
• Argus
• HealthMap
• Challenges and Future Directions.