System for infectious disease information sharing and analysis: Design and evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 483-492

  Hu, Paul Jen Hwa ^a   Zeng, Daniel ^b,c   Chen, Hsinchun ^b   Larson, Catherine ^b   Chang, Wei ^b,d   Tseng, Chunju ^b   Ma, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Infectious disease informatics; Outbreak detection; Public health information systems; System evaluation

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE INFORMATICS; OUTBREAK DETECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM EVALUATION;

DISEASES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547121985     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.893286     Document Type: Article

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