10 Jul, 2008
Researchers harness web to track disease outbreaks.
Posted by: Andrew In: Science| Technology
Brain boxes at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School (Where else?) have recently developed a nifty little web tool called HealthMap. HealthMap gathers and utilises information from the world wide web to accumulate information on outbreaks of diseases, and pinpoints their exact location on a big worldwide map.
Or as they say over at Harvard, it is a ”multi-stream real-time surveillance platform that [...]