New on IEEE Pulse: Digital Epidemiology

Medicine
Written By maryb
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HealthMap is an open-access public health intelligence system that tracks global outbreaks, like the flu, in real time.The internet has revolutionized the way people communicate – and now it’s giving rise to a whole new kind of epidemiology. When harnessed appropriately, web-based technologies have the potential to help epidemiologists predict and monitor disease outbreaks alongside more traditional epidemiological methods.Read the whole story at IEEE Pulse: Tracking Disease.

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