Global disease surveillance platform, and corresponding system and method
First Claim
1. A global disease surveillance platform for identifying, determining, and analyzing potential public health events and monitoring responses thereto, comprising:
- an interface configured by computer-executable instructions to;
receives external information feeds comprising structured and unstructured data;
transform the structured and unstructured data into a schema consistent with a schema of the platform;
extract meta-data from the structured and unstructured data, index the meta-data, and relate the meta-data back to the structured and unstructured data; and
store the structured data, the unstructured data, and the meta-data in a storage device;
an external services module that provides services to facilitate the responses; and
a platform processor coupled to the interface and the external services module and configured by computer-executable instructions to;
analyze the meta-data in relation to one or more thresholds and to trigger transmission of a public health alert by an alert module; and
identify, evaluate, tag, and correlate the structured data, the unstructured data, and the corresponding meta-data to produce a data file related to a specific public health event; and
provide real-time user access to the data file for pre-planning, detection, and response to the public health event.
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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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18 Claims
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1. A global disease surveillance platform for identifying, determining, and analyzing potential public health events and monitoring responses thereto, comprising:
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an interface configured by computer-executable instructions to; receives external information feeds comprising structured and unstructured data; transform the structured and unstructured data into a schema consistent with a schema of the platform; extract meta-data from the structured and unstructured data, index the meta-data, and relate the meta-data back to the structured and unstructured data; and store the structured data, the unstructured data, and the meta-data in a storage device; an external services module that provides services to facilitate the responses; and a platform processor coupled to the interface and the external services module and configured by computer-executable instructions to; analyze the meta-data in relation to one or more thresholds and to trigger transmission of a public health alert by an alert module; and identify, evaluate, tag, and correlate the structured data, the unstructured data, and the corresponding meta-data to produce a data file related to a specific public health event; and provide real-time user access to the data file for pre-planning, detection, and response to the public health event. - View Dependent Claims (2, 13, 16)
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3. 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 configured to receive structured and unstructured data from one or more external data sources and further 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 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; an analysis module configured to analyze the meta-data in relation to one or more thresholds and to trigger transmission of a public health alert by an alert module; and access modules configured to provide real-time user access to the structured and unstructured data, and to the corresponding meta-data for pre-planning, identification, detection, and response to the public health event. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 17, 18)
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10. 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 including at least one processor, 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, using the at least one processor, meta-data from the data sources, wherein the meta-data are linked to their corresponding data source, transforming, using the at least one processor, the extracted meta-data, classifying, using the at least one processor, the transformed meta-data to create indexed meta-data, and storing, using a storage device, the indexed meta-data and their corresponding data source, wherein the indexed meta-data allows retrieval of the corresponding data source; and analyzing, using the at least one processor, 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, using the at least one processor and the storage device, to collect, process, and analyze information to allow management of the response. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 15)
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