Distributed data processing for public health surveillance

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lazarus, Ross ^a   Yih, Katherine ^b   Platt, Richard ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; STATISTICS; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOTERRORISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL RECORDS; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750244565     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-235     Document Type: Article

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