AEGIS: A Robust and Scalable Real-time Public Health Surveillance System

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 581-588

  Reis, Ben Y ^a,b   Kirby, Chaim ^a   Hadden, Lucy E ^a   Olson, Karen ^a   McMurry, Andrew J ^a   Daniel, James B ^c   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTEGRATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

BIOTERRORISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS;

EID: 34548501293     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2342     Document Type: Article

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