Cloud-based Electronic Health Records for Real-time, Region-specific Influenza Surveillance

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Santillana, M ^a,b,c   Nguyen, A T ^c   Louie, T ^d   Zink, A ^e   Gray, J ^e   Sung, I ^e   Brownstein, J S ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e athenahealth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLOUD COMPUTING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS;

EID: 84966333746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25732     Document Type: Article

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