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National Strategy for Biosurveillance
The White House recently released the National Strategy for Biosurveillance. CDC supports the principles of the National Biosurveillance Strategy and, especially, its recognition that biosurveillance is important to national security.
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CDC's Epi Info™ Released to Open Source Community
For its March 2009 issue, The Epidemiology Monitor reprinted "Epi Info Goes Open Source," an article first published in PHINews Winter Edition, 2009
Read Article >>GE Healthcare to Include Urgent Public Health Alerts in EMRs
This article discusses the recent collaboration between General Electric (GE) and CDC on a project that will demonstrate the capability of a public health agency to utilize electronic medical record (EMR) systems to provide clinicians with timely, patient-specific information at the point of care.
Read Article >>Stopping Epidemics Before They Start
This article examines GE Healthcare's demo at HIMMS of a system that links EMRs with public health.
Read Article >>The Future of Public Health: The Grid Gains Traction
This article profiles the work being done to test and develop a public health grid for flexible, affordable interoperability and data sharing.
Read Article >>A Public Health Grid: Accelerating the Interoperability of Information Systems for Public Health
This profile of the public health grid discusses the grid project origin, innovation, context, delivery model, key partnerships, financial model, effectiveness, and strategy.
Read Article >>Grid Computing, Health Grids, and EHR Systems
This article provides a high level overview of current grid computing in healthcare, and tries to bring into focus the relationship grid computing has to electronic health records systems.
Read Article >>A Roadmap Toward a European Health Grid
This article discusses the promise of grid technology for Europe and discusses past successes as well as some remaining challenges.
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