Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence and the HealthMap project

John S Brownstein; Clark C Freifeld; Ben Y Reis; Kenneth D Mandl

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050151

Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence and the HealthMap project

PLoS Med. 2008 Jul 8;5(7):e151. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050151.

Authors

John S Brownstein¹, Clark C Freifeld, Ben Y Reis, Kenneth D Mandl

Affiliation

¹ Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. john_brownstein@harvard.edu

Abstract

John Brownstein and colleagues discuss HealthMap, an automated real-time system that monitors and disseminates online information about emerging infectious diseases.

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / prevention & control*
Global Health
Humans
Internet / trends*
Population Surveillance / methods
Public Health Informatics / methods
Public Health Informatics / trends*

Abstract

MeSH terms

Grants and funding