p2pnet - rss feed: Tracking bugs and viruses — the other kind
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But they’re not the kind we’re used to reading about online.
Rather, they’re real and they’re alive and they’re all grist for HealthMap’s mill as it, “culls through news Web sites, public health list servs, the World Health Organization’s online pages, and other Web sites in six different languages to pinpoint outbreaks of disease that real-world doctors can then act on,” says Discovery.
“It was a pilot project, a side gig for us,” explains John Brownstein of Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, who created HealthMap in 2006 with Clark Friefeld, a software developer at Harvard Medical School.
Then, about nine months ago, HealthMap, “came to the attention of Google.org, “the company’s, “philanthropic arm,” and Lo! - it, “began to fund the team”.
It also seems to have contributed a good dollop of Google mapping magic.
The fact Google is has identified health care as a major money earner is, of course, purely coincidental.
“So far the program identifies about 95 percent of all disease outbreaks, sometimes days before the World Health Organization or the Centers of Disease Control announce them,” says the story.
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Discovery - Web-Crawling Program ID’s Disease Outbreaks, July 18, 2008
major money earner -Your health care records under Big Business, June 27, 2008
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