(2003-12-30) Public Health Software

Drats, I was reading something within the last couple days about SARS, The Flu, and other diseases, and the need for Real Time tracking to recognize and react to OutBreak-s. Can't find it now. That would be a pretty cool national/global Public Health project to work on, wouldn't it?

Update: I suspect it was this Bruce Sterling piece. The pioneers in this method are outfits like the WHO/World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert And Response Network. Born in 2000, GOARN is a very young network connecting national ministries of health, scientific institutes, and nongovernmental organizations such as the Red Cross, DoctorsWithoutBorders, and Medical Emergency Relief International. Understanding the dire need for speed, epidemic medicine is reshaping itself around its networks and databases, such as Global Public Health Intelligence Network, Flu Net, Pac Net, and Pulse Net. (Disease Tracking)