A public health application of data analysis for homeland security

Author

Greene, Marjorie ; Eek, Robert

Author_Institution

Sci. Applic. Int. Corp., McLean

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1177

Lastpage

1179

Abstract

This presentation follows up the talk last year to WINFORMS (The Washington Institute for Operations Research and The Management Sciences) in which an approach developed for the analysis of military command and control during crises was shown to be relevant to surveillance for an infectious disease outbreak. ProMEDMail is an Internet-based system dedicated to rapid global dis semination of information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins that affect human health. The presentation will demonstrate how the collection, formatting, and analysis of raw data, using ProMED-Mail, can point to emerging biological incidents and allow the real-time dissemination of results to local, regional, and central health facilities.

Keywords

Internet; biology computing; health and safety; national security; Internet-based system; ProMEDMail; WINFORMS; Washington Institute for Operations Research and The Management Sciences); biological incidents; data analysis; homeland security; infectious disease outbreak; public health application; real-time dissemination; Command and control systems; Crisis management; Data analysis; Diseases; Humans; Internet; Operations research; Public healthcare; Surveillance; Terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2007 Winter

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1306-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1306-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2007.4419719

Filename

4419719