Infectious Disease Informatics and Syndromic Surveillance [chapter]

Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Ping Yan
2008 Digital Government  
Infectious disease informatics (IDI) is an emerging field that studies data collection, sharing, modeling, and management issues in the domain of infectious diseases. This chapter discusses various technical components of IDI research from an information technology perspective. Syndromic surveillance is used to illustrate these components of IDI research, as it is a widely-adopted approach to detecting and responding to public health and bioterrorism events. Two case studies involving
more » ... applications and research prototypes are presented to illustrate the application context and relevant system design and data modeling issues. Chapter 26. Zeng, Chen, and Yan
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-71611-4_26 fatcat:zvvonnnrcjaqlhhb4hqvitfuoy