Web services based syndromic surveillance for early warning within French Forces.
OBJECTIVE
Syndromic surveillance for early warning in military context needs a robust, scalable, flexible, ubiquitous, and interoperable surveillance system.


METHODS
We have designed our surveillance system as a collaborative network of web services on the basis of a skill oriented decomposition of the overall task and a formal model of epidemiological events.


RESULTS
The services (integration devices, epidemiologic receivers, information processing devices, GUI clients) are distributed in several locations in France and French Guiana using a secured network.


CONCLUSIONS
This system is in operation since several months. It has already early detected two outbreaks before conventional surveillance systems.
Chaudet
Hervé
H
DESP, IMTSSA, Marseille Armées, France. herve.chaudet@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
Pellegrin
Liliane
L
Meynard
Jean-Baptiste
JB
Texier
Gaëtan
G
Tournebize
Olivier
O
Queyriaux
Benjamin
B
Boutin
Jean-Paul
JP
D001694:Biological Warfare; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008889:Military Personnel; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*