A new health-mapping system crawls the Web’s disparate news sources and aggregates the information it finds there into a unified view of the world’s health. HealthMap, which was launched by a team of researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, provides a comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health by combing a variety of data sources across the Web. It is freely accessible to users around the world.
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HealthMap Crawls the Web to Track Disease Outbreaks
Posted by: Katherine Noyes July 9, 2008 02:10 PMA new health-mapping system crawls the Web’s disparate news sources and aggregates the information it finds there into a unified view of the world’s health. HealthMap, which was launched by a team of researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, provides a comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health by combing a variety of data sources across the Web. It is freely accessible to users around the world.