Question

Websites such as the Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital Boston HealthMap, offer free web services that track the number of cases of influenza and other conditions in an area. How might those services be useful in developing a biosurveillance registry?

Answer 1

key components of Biosurveillance are data sources, database, Analysis, decision making which eventually help to produce good response.

A biosurveillance registry is made from data collected from various sources. aforementioned websites can be used as an excellent tool to collect health data.

function of Biosurveillance is to anticipate an outbreak as well as the consequences of that disease event. Here, the service provided by the websites are a feasible way of collecting data which will be useful in forecasting an outbreak, assess risk and disease trends, the public health infrastructure..etc