Cloud-based Electronic Health Records for Real-time, Region-specific Influenza Surveillance.

ABSTRACT: Accurate real-time monitoring systems of influenza outbreaks help public health officials make informed decisions that may help save lives. We show that information extracted from cloud-based electronic health records databases, in combination with machine learning techniques and historical epidemiological information, have the potential to accurately and reliably provide near real-time regional estimates of flu outbreaks in the United States.

SUBMITTER: Santillana M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4863169 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature