Tag: CDC

Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search

Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com A small start-up called Sick­weath­er says pub­lic tweets and Face­book mes­sages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu sea­son, six weeks before the CDC. Baltimore-based Sick­weath­er tweet­ed about the early flu sea­son on O… http://flip.it/j4OW2 Related articles The new bird … Continue reading Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention databases for pharma intelligence

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Data Governance

    By far the best datasets for disease info are the CDC's...   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.     Related articles CDC: West Nile outbreak 'one of largest' in US (newsobserver.com) CDC: 41 West Nile deaths in U.S. (content.usatoday.com) CDC: 158 cases of new swine flu strain from pigs (sacbee.com) Dallas mayor … Continue reading Centers for Disease Control and Prevention databases for pharma intelligence

Google replaces CDC, Patientslikeme Replaces FDA?

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Data Governance, Information Visualization, Network Science, OSINT Intelligence

As more web driven mass crowd sourced health data is collected by large search and portals and organized it is being packaged and anonymized to provide services that normally took many months to years and required whole separate agencies and departments to run. So for example Patientslikeme is now making possible users with health conditions … Continue reading Google replaces CDC, Patientslikeme Replaces FDA?