Tuesday, December 23. 2008

Sermo: Doctors Crowdsource Flu Data

Sermo FluMonitor is a sort of step from Google Flu Tracker which uses end-user queries about the flu to map where the disease is prevalent. The Sermo solution uses data uploaded by 100,000 doctors to do roughly the same thing - only with far more detail on the patient. Unlike Google's solution, the doctor uploaded data is aggregated to the ZIP Code level and presented in near-real time.

Among the data available to members:

-- Number of new cases in the last seven days and the increase over the prior week
-- Number of cases confirmed with Rapid-Flu and percentage increase over the prior week
-- Age range of patients
-- Top presenting symptoms

The Cambridge, Mass-based company thinks the model could be used for other diseases.

- press release
- via Xconomy

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Health at 06:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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#1 Shazia (Link) on 2009-01-23 03:57 (Reply)

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