Propagation of program control: A tool for distributed disease surveillance

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 313-329

  Bellika, Johan Gustav ^a   Hasvold, Toralf ^b   Hartvigsen, Gunnar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Distributed systems; Electronic patient records; Epidemiology; Population surveillance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR); ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ANALYSIS; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DATA BASE; DIFFUSION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENGINEERING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; MICROBIOLOGY; MONITORING; NORWAY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NORWAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 33847249421     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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