A New Study Examines Web-Based Biosurveillance Systems in Identifying Disease Outbreaks

Monday, October 20, 2014 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

SILVER SPRING, MD, October 20, 2014 - Little quantitative evidence exists to show that electronic event-based biosurveillance systems that gather near real-time information to identify infectious disease outbreaks have led to specific health policy actions, decisions or outcomes, according a new study published today in the peer-review journal, PLoS One.

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