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Bioterrorism Surveillance with Real-Time Data Warehousing

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2003)

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This paper discusses several technical challenges in the development of an effective bioterrorism surveillance system. Three factors are critical:

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    It must be multidimensional.

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    It must accelerate the transmission of findings and data to most closely approximate real time surveillance so as to provide sufficient warning.

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    It must have the capability for pattern recognition that will quickly identify an alarm or alert threshold value.

We build on our on-going health care data warehousing research to provide solutions to these challenges. The innovative use of flash data warehousing provides the essential ability to compare real-time healthcare data with historical patterns of key surveillance indicators. A comprehensive architecture of a bioterrorism surveillance system is presented. A demonstration project in Florida showcases these ideas.

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  1. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620

    Donald J. Berndt, Alan R. Hevner & James Studnicki

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Hsinchun Chen , Daniel D. Zeng  & Therani Madhusudan ,  & 

  2. Tucson Police Department, 270 S. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ, 85701, USA

    Richard Miranda  & Jenny Schroeder  & 

  3. School of Public Administration and Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Chris Demchak

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Berndt, D.J., Hevner, A.R., Studnicki, J. (2003). Bioterrorism Surveillance with Real-Time Data Warehousing. In: Chen, H., Miranda, R., Zeng, D.D., Demchak, C., Schroeder, J., Madhusudan, T. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44853-5_24

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