TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chen,Hsinchun
AU  - Zeng,Daniel
AU  - Yan,Ping
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Infectious Disease Informatics: Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health and BioDefense 
T2  - Integrated Series in Information Systems,
SN  - 9781441912787
AV  - R858-859.7 
U1  - 502.85 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Business
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Public health
KW  - Health informatics
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Computers
KW  - E-commerce
KW  - Medicine & Public Health
KW  - Health Informatics
KW  - Public Health
KW  - IT in Business
KW  - e-Commerce/e-business
KW  - Information Systems and Communication Service
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 Health and Bio-Defense is an in-depth monograph that analyzes and evaluates the outbreak modeling and detection capabilities of existing surveillance systems under a unified framework, and presents the first book-length coverage of the subject from an informatics-driven perspective. Individual chapters consider the state of the art, including the facilitation of data collection, sharing and transmission; a focus on various outbreak detection methods; data visualization and information dissemination issues; and system assessment and other policy issues. Eight chapters then report on several real-world case studies, summarizing and comparing eight syndromic surveillance systems, including those that have been adopted by many public health agencies (e.g., RODS and BioSense). The book concludes with a discussion of critical issues and challenges, with a look to future directions. This book is an excellent source of current information for researchers in public health and IT. Government public health officials and private-sector practitioners in both public health and IT will find the most up-to-date information available, and students from a variety of disciplines, including public health, biostatistics, information systems, computer science, and public administration and policy will get a comprehensive look at the concepts, techniques, and practices of syndromic surveillance
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