&t North Country Consulting: June 2007

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Earmarks2005

Office of Management and Budget has released 15,000 earmarks from the 2005 US Fiscal Year. You can download it as a CSV file from their site (the compressed file is 1.5 MB, with the raw file 13.5 MB.

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Roundtable June 11, 10:30 AM

Jesse joins the Roundtable at 10:30 on Monday, June 11 to talk about Internet resources for public health information. There are some very powerful new technology tools being used to their utmost in the collection, display, and interpretation of data.

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ProMED

The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources. ProMED-mail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

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GeoRSS

Add location information to RSS feeds. Now supported by Google Maps.

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International Society for Infectious Diseases

The orgranization that sponsors ProMED.

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NYS Dept of Health

Information about health resources including regionally important diseases such as West Nile, Lyme Disease, rabies, etc. An enormous resource, well organized.

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CDC Pandemic Page

The CDC page for pandemic and avian flu.

Note the extensive use of push technologies (RSS feeds) and the Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog.

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EpiSPIDER

A terrific mashup of public health information. It demonstrates not just the power of mashups but also how, once a mashup is designed and set up, it can use automated news feeds to update itself on demand.

From their description: "EpiSPIDER (Semantic Processing and Integration of Distributed Electronic Resources) is an application that integrates disparate electronic resources like news wires, RSS feeds and mailing lists to provide an integrated view of reported health events. It specifically uses ProMED mail reports and health newsfeeds as sources of information These reports are then transformed and analyzed with natural language processing and text mining techniques to help scan the horizon for infectious disease outbreaks. These reports are also mapped using the geocoding and mapping interfaces of YahooMaps, Google Maps as well as Scalable Vector Graphics (requires Adobe SVG Viewer). We also integrate these reports with other health information resources such as MedLINE/PubMed."

There's more info in their blog.

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WHO GI/Map Server

Search the WHO databases to display data on maps.

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World Health Organization

The international organization monitor health around the world. All sorts of information and statistics.

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