Infectious disease informatics and biosurveillance: research, systems and case studies

This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research with meaningful meshing-up of innovative applications and novel methods. Additionally, it looks at informatics-driven perspectives (e.g., information system design, data standards, computational aspects of biosurveillance algorithms, and system evaluation), and serves the practical purpose of communicating to the policy makers and practitioners recent research findings and case studies in IDI and biosurveillance. The book contains chapters from major researchers and research groups focusing on cutting-edge IDI technical and policy research and its application in biosurveillance. Chapters are grouped into three sections: Section I provides an overview of recent biosurveillance efforts and discusses the legal and policy structure related to IDI and biosurveillance efforts. It then focuses on IDI data sources, and related information collection, sharing, and dissemination issues including ethical considerations. Section II surveys various types of methods used to analyze IDI data for both public health and bioterrorism surveillance. Computational techniques covered include: text mining, time series analysis, methods to deal with multiple data streams, ensembles of surveillance methods, spatial analysis and visualization, social network analysis, and agent-based simulation. Section III examines ITand decision support for public health event response and bio-defense. Practical lessons learned in public health and biosurveillance system development, technology adoption, and syndromic surveillance for large events are also discussed. The goal of this book is to provide an understandable interdisciplinary IDI and biosurveillance reference either used as a standalone textbook or reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in public health, veterinary medicine, biostatistics, information systems, computer science, and public administration and policy. - Discusses the technologies involved in collecting,sharing, reporting, & analyzing, infectious disease data. Provides data & decision-making support for infectious disease prevention, detection, & management - Outlines how to detect, analyze, & stop bio INDICE: Chapter 1: Real-Time Public Health Biosurveillance: Systems and Policy Considerations.- Chapter 2: Designing Ethical Pratice in Biosurveillane: The Project Argus Doctrine.- Chapter 3: Using Emergency Department Data for Biosurveillance: The North Carolina Experience.- Chapter 4: Clinical Laboratory Data for Biosurveillance.- Chapter 5: Biosurveillance Based on Test Orders from Veterinary Diagnostic Labs.- Chapter 6: Markov Switching Models for OutbreakDetection.- Chapter 7: Detection of Events in Multiple Streams of Surveillance Data: Multivariate, Multi-stream and Multidimensional Approaches.- Chapter 8: Algorithm Combination for Improved Performance in Biosurveillance: Algorithms Combination for Improved Surveillance.- Chapter 9: Modeling in Space and Time: A Framework for Visualization and Collaboration.- Chapter 10: Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Spatial and Temporal Clustering Methods: Spatial and Temporal Clustering Methods Used in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.- Chapter 11: Age-Adjustment in National Biosurveillance Systems: A Survey of Issues and Analytical Tools for Age-adjustment in Biosurveillance.- Chapter 12: Modeling in Immunization and Biosurveillance.- Chapter 13: Natural Language Processing for Biosurveillance: Detection and Characterization from Textual Clinical Reports.- Chapter 14: Knowledge Mapping for Bioterrorism-related Literature.- Chapter 15: Social Networking Analysis for Contract Tracing.- Chapter 16:Multi-Agent Modeling of Biological and Chemical Threats.- Chapter 17: Integrated Health Altering and Notification: A Case Study in New York State.- Chapter18: Design and Performance of a Public Health Preparedness Informatics Framework.- Chapter 19: System Evaluation and User Technology Adoption: A Case Studyof BioPortal.- Chapter 20: Syndromic Surveillance for the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Meeting.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-6891-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 470
• Fecha Publicación: 12/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés