[Research] Lab Meeting tomorrow (Tue Feb 12th)

[Artur Dubrawski]

Time: 11:30am, Place: NSH 1507, Food: Yes.

Speaker:
Kevin Hutchinson, co-Founder and CEO, Health Monitoring Systems, Inc.

Title:
 From Biosurveillance to Community Health Surveillance

Summary:
Health Monitoring Systems, Inc. (HMS), is developing a set of tools to 
support community health surveillance systems and giving government and 
industry the tools they need to monitor trends and have early-warning 
alerts. The company offers an advanced online service, known as 
Epicenter™, for management of community health surveillance to public 
health departments and agencies, at all levels of government. Epicenter 
is an open source, task based web application, designed to emulate the 
experience of a desktop application.
Epicenter also represents several innovations in the field of healthcare 
surveillance. Maps provided by Google, Inc., provide detailed 
information on multiple geographic scales, and allow intuitive user 
interaction with data. Users can find and examine anomalies, and create 
investigations to track multiple anomalies in concert. Symptom 
classifiers have been added to accurately classify chief complaints that 
fall under multiple syndrome categories. Additional analytical tools 
have been put in place to yield probability values for anomalies, 
indicating the likelihood of such an observation, to give users a more 
meaningful view of events. Finally, Epicenter is designed to allow the 
addition of new data types, analytics, and visualization tools as it is 
further developed to better meet the expanding needs of public health.