The Influenzanet Italian team who coordinates the Italian platform Influweb, will be present at the conference eHealth2010, in the session on Epidemic Intelligence, on the following topics: Web 2.0 and social networks, techniques for harnessing and mining user-generated content, provision of pertinent information to patients, outbreak detection and early warning systems, data collection and analysis for surveillance and epidemiology.
The aim of eHealth 2010 in Casablanca, Morocco, from 13th to 15th December 2010 is to bring together experts from academia, industry and global healthcare institutions such as WHO and ECDC to stimulate cutting-edge research discussions, share experience with real-world healthcare service providers and policy makers as well as provide numerous business opportunities.
The second project meeting of the Epiwork consortium will be held in Turin on December 6-7 2010. The meeting is intended not only as a check point of the activities of the project within the consortium but also, more importantly, as a moment for establishing the future integration and joint research among the partners and among the Work Packages.
The meeting will allow, as the previous years, all partners to provide a summary of the activities undertaken and the progress of the research activities. Nevertheless, the agenda will allow large room for the discussion about the future direction of the research activities for the next years from the integration and interdependence point of view. As the first year, we will also have all the formal moment of the consortium with the Steering committee meeting. Emphasis should be given to the discussion of the previous year feedback concerning integration, collaborations and exploitation of the results.
The Epidemic Marketplace, developed by Epiwork WP3 partners lead by Mario Silva from University of Lisbon, has been publicly released. The Epidemic Marketplace is available at http://www.epimarketplace.net.
The contents that have been made available to the epidemic community at the time of release of this resource have been annotated by the authors and obtained from various sources.
The Epidemic Marketplace can be defined as a distributed virtual repository, a platform supporting transparent, seamless access to distributed, heterogeneous and redundant resources. It is a virtual repository because data can be stored in systems that are external to the Epidemic Marketplace, and it provides transparent access because several heterogeneities are hidden from its users.
