Crawling The Internet To Track Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
Could Internet discussion forums, listservs and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online intelligence.