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Information technologies and infectious disease informatics are playing an increasingly important role in preventing, detecting, and managing infectious disease outbreaks. This paper presents a collaborative infectious disease informatics project called the WNV-BOT Portal system. This Portal system provides integrated, Web-enabled access to a variety of distributed data sources related to West Nile Virus and Botulism. It also makes available a preliminary set of data analysis and visualization tools tailored for these two diseases. This system has helped to demonstrate the technological feasibility of developing a cross jurisdiction and cross species infectious disease information infrastructure and identify related technical and policy-related challenges with its national implementation.
Research reported in this paper has been supported in part by the NSF through Digital Government Grant #EIA-9983304.
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Zeng, D. et al. (2004). West Nile Virus and Botulism Portal: A Case Study in Infectious Disease Informatics. In: Chen, H., Moore, R., Zeng, D.D., Leavitt, J. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25952-7_3
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