GLOBAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE PLATFORM, AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM AND METHOD
First Claim
1. A method, implemented on a computing device, for identifying and assessing public health events, and for monitoring and evaluating responses to those events, comprising:
- capturing public health-related information from both structured and unstructured sources, wherein the information is contained in one or more information sources;
extracting meta-data from the one or more sources;
creating an index of the extracted meta-data; and
archiving the meta-data and the sources, wherein the index links meta-data to its associated information source.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for identifying and assessing public health events, and a corresponding system and apparatus, includes capturing public health-related information from structured and unstructured sources, where the information is contained in one or more documents, extracting meta-data from the captured public health-related information, creating an index of the extracted meta-data; archiving the meta-data and the documents, where the index links meta-data to its associated document, processing the extracted meta-data according to one or more detection algorithms to determine if an anomaly exists, and where an anomaly exists, providing a public health event notification, and monitoring and evaluating the responses to the public health events.
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28 Claims
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1. A method, implemented on a computing device, for identifying and assessing public health events, and for monitoring and evaluating responses to those events, comprising:
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capturing public health-related information from both structured and unstructured sources, wherein the information is contained in one or more information sources; extracting meta-data from the one or more sources; creating an index of the extracted meta-data; and archiving the meta-data and the sources, wherein the index links meta-data to its associated information source. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A global disease surveillance platform, comprising:
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a platform processor, wherein potential public health events are identified, determined, analyzed, and wherein responses to the public health events are monitored; an interface coupled to the platform processor, wherein the interface receives external information feeds comprising structured and unstructured data, and wherein meta-data are extracted from the structured and unstructured data, indexed, and related back to the structured and unstructured data; an external services module that provides services to facilitate the responses; and a storage device, wherein meta-data from the structured and unstructured data, and the structured and unstructured data are stored. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. An apparatus for managing phases of a public health event, the apparatus including one or more suitably programmed computing devices, the apparatus comprising:
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an interface that receives structured and unstructured data from one or more external data sources, the interface, comprising; a data transformation module that transforms data from the structured and unstructured data sources into a schema consistent with a schema of the apparatus, and a data classification module that that extracts meta-data related to the structured and unstructured data and creates an index of the meta-data back to the meta data'"'"'s structured or unstructured data; a data store coupled to the interface, wherein the indexed meta-data and the structured and unstructured data are stored; a processing component coupled to the interface, comprising; analysis algorithms, the analysis algorithms applied to the meta-data, an alert module, wherein when a threshold, as indicated by application of the algorithms to the meta-data is exceeded, a public health alert is sounded, and access modules that operate to allow real-time access to the structured and unstructured data, and to the corresponding meta-data, wherein a response to the public health event is managed from pre-planning, identification, detection, and response. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method for managing a response to a public health event during an entire life cycle of the event, the method executed on one or more computing devices, the method comprising:
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receiving information contained in one or more structured and unstructured data sources; initially processing the information, comprising; extracting meta-data from the data sources, wherein the meta-data are linked to their corresponding data source, transforming the extracted meta-data, classifying the transformed meta-data, and storing the indexed meta-data and their corresponding data source, wherein the index allows retrieval of the corresponding data source; and analyzing the meta-data to determine if a threshold value indicative of a public health event has been exceeded, wherein if the threshold has been exceeded, providing an initial public health event alert, and continuing to collect, process, and analyze information to allow management of the response. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28)
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