HealthMap: the future of infectious diseases surveillance?

摘要

Electronic surveillance using web-based tools has proven to be of substantial value in reporting out-breaks of infectious disease. However, trying to pinpoint a potential outbreak and contain it before it spreads requires the constant surveillance of a continually growing number of disparate news sources and alert services. HealthMap, a new health surveillance system that scours web sources for real-time information on infectious disease outbreaks, was developed in an effort to address some of those challenges.