Published on in Vol 7, No 1 (2015):

Evaluating the Utility of HealthMap as a Supplementary Surveillance Tool

Evaluating the Utility of HealthMap as a Supplementary Surveillance Tool

Evaluating the Utility of HealthMap as a Supplementary Surveillance Tool

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This session discusses an assessment of the outbreak detection utility of HealthMap, a publically available event-based biosurveillance system utilizing various internet-based media resources to identify outbreaks, at the state and local level. Results may help determine whether HealthMap should be monitored more closely as a supplementary surveillance tool.