HealthMap WisdomCard™
Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on HealthMap and compiled helpful research notes below.
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Research Notes on HealthMap
HealthMap is an mashup of Google Maps, which means you take a Google Map and add to it information from any source you like. In the case of HealthMaps they use dependable sources to pinpoint global outbreaks of disease.1 This quote from their website explains the concept in detail: "HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization)."2
"'Fast Facts:"'
- HealthMaps.org should not be confused with Healthmapforms.com
- HealthMaps.org also provides disease information for animals, as well.3
- HeathMaps.org should be used by all who plan to travel in the United States, or abroad.4
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Latest Headlines on HealthMap
Official Web Sites and Corporate Blogs of HealthMap
- HealthMap: Global Disease Alert Map | About Health Map
Company Info on HealthMap
- Children's Hospital Informatics Program: Welcome
- Children's Hospital Informatics Program: Intelligent Health Lab
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Medicine to Solve Problems in Human Health |HST's CHIP Launches HEALTHmap Disease Tracker
Founders and Management of HealthMap
- Clark Fairfield: Project, Links, Photography, and Compositions
- Children's Hospital Informatics Program: John S. Brownstein, PhD | Ckark Fairfield
- HealthMap Team: Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH
- HealthMap Team: Ben Reis, MEng, PhD
- HealthMap Team: Isaac S. Kohane MD, PhD
Products and Services from HealthMap
- Newswise (via Children's Hospital Boston): Real-time Map of Infectious Outbreaks Briefs Disease Trackers, International Travelers
Blogs and Forums About HealthMap
- WIRED: Get Your Daily Plague Forecast (Oct. 19, 2006)
- Mashup Awards: HealthMap Mashup of the Day (July 10, 2007)
- About.com: HealthMap Puts Diseases on the Map for Travelers
- World Health Organization (WHO): Public Health Mapping
- Google Maps Mania: Health Map - Global Disease Alert Mapping System
- Mulford Library Blog: HealthMap: Global Disease Alert Map
- DavidRothman.net Exploring Medical Librarianship and Web Geekery: HealthMap and eSpider
Photo, Audio, and Video from HealthMap
- Slideshare: Aggregation of Online Media Reports for Global Infectious Disease Intelligence (Slideshow)
- Georeferencing Workshop at Harvard: Dr. John Brownstein Presentation (Mar. 21, 2008)
Competitors of HealthMap
- EpiSpider News: Map Exhibit
- ProMED: ProMED-Mail
Research Notes References
- ↑ International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID): The Global Electronic Reporting System for Outbreaks of Emerging Infectious Diseases & Toxins, Open to All Sources. (ProMED-mail)
- ↑ HealthMap About Health Map
- ↑ Mashup Awards: HealthMap Mashup of the Day (July 10, 2007)
- ↑ Newswise (via Children's Hospital Boston): Real-time Map of Infectious Outbreaks Briefs Disease Trackers, International Travelers
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- Contributor: Stephen Taylor
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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