DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR DISEASE DETECTION

Health Surveillance Sites


  • CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
  • Google Flu Trends
  • Mappy Health
  • Health Map
  • ProMED-mail
  • Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)
  • MediSys
  • EpiSPIDER
  • BioCaster
  • influenzanet
  • Wildlife Disease Information Node
  • H5N1 Google Earth mashup
  • Avian Influenza Daily Digest and blog
  • Google Insights for Search
  • DiSTRIBuTE
  • GeoSentinel
  • Emerging Infections Network
  • Argus
  • Flu Near You
  • Fount.in Health insights in real time
  • sickweather

    • Health-related Social Networking Sites


  • Physicians
  • PatientsLikeMe
  • HealthSocial

    • Recent News on Health


  • Marketers Track Flu Outbreaks Closely (12/23/13)
  • Researchers Develop System That Uses a Big Data Approach to Personalized Healthcare (7/25/13)
  • GE Healthcare To Spend $2 Billion On Data Analytics And Other Tools (6/12/13)
  • Mobile healthcare could save Europe €100 billion by 2017 (6/5/13)
  • When Google got flu wrong (2/13/13)
  • 2013 Allergy Season Could Be The Worst Ever, Thanks To Climate Change, Some Experts Say. (1/31/13)
  • Tracking the flu with technology and Twitter. (1/30/13)
  • Predictive analytics allows feds to track outbreaks in real time. (1/25/13)
  • Can Twitter Help with Public Health Surveillance?

    • Health Data


  • MIT MIMIC II Database
  • Gemina : GEnomic Metadata for INfectioous Agents

    • Softwares


  • scikit-learn: machine learning in Python
  • Python StatModels