Developing open source, self-contained disease surveillance software applications for use in resource-limited settings

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Campbell, Timothy C ^a   Hodanics, Charles J ^a   Babin, Steven M ^a   Poku, Adjoa M ^a   Wojcik, Richard A ^a   Skora, Joseph F ^b   Coberly, Jacqueline S ^a   Mistry, Zarna S ^a   Lewis, Sheri H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease outbreak; Electronic biosurveillance; Public health; Resource limited settings; Software development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SECURITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; STANDARD; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SECURITY; DATA DISPLAY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84865768440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-99     Document Type: Article

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