PubMed · 2006 · 19 citations · 0 references
Public HealthHealth InformaticsInfectious Disease ControlDisease SurveillanceOutbreak DetectionSyndromic SurveillanceDigital SurveillanceDisease Surveillance SystemsSurveillance ApplicationsSurveillance MethodsCollaborative Network DesignCollaborative NetworksEarly Warning SurveillanceIntegrated Surveillance NetworksInternet-based SurveillanceSurveillance System DesignSurveillance SystemsWeb Services
OBJECTIVES: Syndromic surveillance for early warning in military context needs a robust, scalable, flexible, ubiquitous, and interoperable surveillance system. METHODS: We have designed our surveillance system as a collaborative network of web services on the basis of a skill oriented decomposition of the overall task and a formal model of epidemiological events. RESULTS: The services (integration devices, epidemiologic receivers, information processing devices, GUI clients) are distributed in several locations in France and French Guiana using a secured network. CONCLUSIONS: This system is in operation since several months. It has already early detected two outbreaks before conventional surveillance systems.