TY - BOOK ID - 8137008 TI - Infectious disease informatics : syndromic surveillance for public health and biodefense AU - Chen, Hsinchun. AU - Zeng, Daniel. AU - Yan, Ping PY - 2010 SN - 1282832166 9786612832161 1441912789 1441912770 1461425395 PB - New York ; London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Communicable diseases KW - Medical informatics. KW - Public health KW - Public health surveillance. KW - Medical informatics KW - Public health surveillance KW - Population Surveillance KW - Biomedical Technology KW - Epidemiology KW - Medical Informatics KW - Communicable Diseases KW - Methods KW - Technology KW - Informatics KW - Health Surveys KW - Public Health KW - Public Health Practice KW - Information Science KW - Infection KW - Investigative Techniques KW - Medicine KW - Technology, Industry, and Agriculture KW - Bacterial Infections and Mycoses KW - Data Collection KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Technology, Industry, Agriculture KW - Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms KW - Diseases KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Health Occupations KW - Quality of Health Care KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Health Care KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Medical & Biomedical Informatics KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Data processing. KW - Data processing KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Sanitary affairs KW - Social hygiene KW - Contagion and contagious diseases KW - Contagious diseases KW - Infectious diseases KW - Microbial diseases in human beings KW - Zymotic diseases KW - Medicine. KW - Information technology. KW - Business KW - Public health. KW - Health informatics. KW - Epidemiology. KW - Computers. KW - E-commerce. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Health Informatics. KW - Public Health. KW - IT in Business. KW - e-Commerce/e-business. KW - Information Systems and Communication Service. KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Epidemics KW - Medical records KW - Information systems. KW - IT (Information technology) KW - Telematics KW - Information superhighway KW - Knowledge management KW - EHR systems KW - EHR technology KW - EHRs (Electronic health records) KW - Electronic health records KW - Electronic medical records KW - EMR systems KW - EMRs (Electronic medical records) KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Medical care KW - Business—Data processing. KW - Automatic computers KW - Automatic data processors KW - Computer hardware KW - Computing machines (Computers) KW - Electronic brains KW - Electronic calculating-machines KW - Electronic computers KW - Hardware, Computer KW - Computer systems KW - Cybernetics KW - Machine theory KW - Calculators KW - Cyberspace KW - Cybercommerce KW - E-business KW - E-commerce KW - E-tailing KW - eBusiness KW - eCommerce KW - Electronic business KW - Internet commerce KW - Internet retailing KW - Online commerce KW - Web retailing KW - Commerce KW - Clinical informatics KW - Health informatics KW - Medical information science KW - Information science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8137008 AB - Computer-based infectious disease surveillance systems are capable of real-time or near real-time detection of serious illnesses and potential bioterrorism agent exposures and represent a major step forward in disease surveillance. Infectious Disease Informatics: Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health and Bio-Defense is an in-depth monograph that analyzes and evaluates the outbreak modeling and detection capabilities of existing surveillance systems under a unified framework, and presents the first book-length coverage of the subject from an informatics-driven perspective. Individual chapters consider the state of the art, including the facilitation of data collection, sharing and transmission; a focus on various outbreak detection methods; data visualization and information dissemination issues; and system assessment and other policy issues. Eight chapters then report on several real-world case studies, summarizing and comparing eight syndromic surveillance systems, including those that have been adopted by many public health agencies (e.g., RODS and BioSense). The book concludes with a discussion of critical issues and challenges, with a look to future directions. This book is an excellent source of current information for researchers in public health and IT. Government public health officials and private-sector practitioners in both public health and IT will find the most up-to-date information available, and students from a variety of disciplines, including public health, biostatistics, information systems, computer science, and public administration and policy will get a comprehensive look at the concepts, techniques, and practices of syndromic surveillance. ER -