Putting It Together: The Biosurveillance Information System

Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 193-261

  Hauenstein, Logan ^a   Wojcik, Richard ^a   Loschen, Wayne ^a   Ashar, Raj ^a   Sniegoski, Carol ^a   Tabernero, Nathaniel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosurveillance information system; Disease surveillance; Information technology; Stand alone system application design; Visualization techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449102105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470131886.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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