Online Tool Provides Worldwide Disease Outbreak Information
The Internet can help public health officials monitor disease outbreaks in distant countries, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, Government Health IT reports.
Two years ago, the researchers developed an automated, real-time Web-based system, called HealthMap, that collects data on disease outbreaks through listserves, disease reporting networks and online media outlets, and then filters, integrates and classifies those data. A mapping feature displays emerging and ongoing disease outbreaks on a global map.
Source: iHealthBeat