Infectious disease surveillance in the big data era: Towards faster and locally relevant systems

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 214, Issue , 2016, Pages S380-S385

  Simonsen, Lone ^a,b   Gog, Julia R ^c   Olson, Don ^a   Viboud, Cécile ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Death certificates; Electronic patient records; Infectious diseases surveillance; Influenza; Internet search queries; Medical claims; Real time monitoring; Syndromic data

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS (HEALTH CARE); ARTICLE; BIG DATA; CHOLERA; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; GOOGLE FLU TRENDS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INTERNET; MEASLES; MUMPS; PLAGUE; SMALLPOX; SOCIAL MEDIA; URETHRITIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; PROCEDURES; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85015840559     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw376     Document Type: Article

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