Web Services Based Syndromic Surveillance for Early Warning within French Forces

摘要

Objectives. Syndromic surveillance for early warning in military context needs a robust, scalable, flexible, ubiquitous, and interoperable surveillance system. Methods. We have designed our surveillance system as a collaborative network of web services on the basis of a skill oriented decomposition of the overall task and a formal model of epidemiological events. Results. The services (integration devices, epidemiologic receivers, information processing devices, GUI clients) are distributed in several locations in France and French Guiana using a secured network. Conclusions. This system is in operation since several months. It has already early detected two outbreaks before conventional surveillance systems.