Real time influenza monitoring using hospital big data in combination with machine learning methods: Comparison study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Poirier, Canelle ^a   Lavenu, Audrey ^b   Bertaud, Valérie ^a,c   Campillo Gimenez, Boris ^a,d   Chazard, Emmanuel ^e,f   Cuggia, Marc ^a,c   Bouzillé, Guillaume ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Eugène Marquis   (France)

^e Faculté de Médecine Pôle Recherché   (France)

^f LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Big data; Electronic health records; Influenza; Infodemiology; Infoveillance; Machine learning; Sentinelles network

Indexed keywords

EID: 85067404542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/11361     Document Type: Article

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