Bioterrorism surveillance with real-time data warehousing

Authors:
Donald J. Berndt;Alan R. Hevner;James Studnicki
Affiliations:
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL;University of South Florida, Tampa, FL;University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Venue:
ISI'03 Proceedings of the 1st NSF/NIJ conference on Intelligence and security informatics
Year:
2003

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Abstract

This paper discusses several technical challenges in the developmentof an effective bioterrorism surveillance system. Three factors are critical:1. It must be multidimensional.2. It must accelerate the transmission of findings and data to most closely approximatereal time surveillance so as to provide sufficient warning.3. It must have the capability for pattern recognition that will quickly identifyan alarm or alert threshold value. We build on our on-going health care data warehousing research to provide solutionsto these challenges. The innovative use of flash data warehousing providesthe essential ability to compare real-time healthcare data with historicalpatterns of key surveillance indicators. A comprehensive architecture of a bioterrorismsurveillance system is presented. A demonstration project in Floridashowcases these ideas.