title: Web services based syndromic surveillance for early warning within French Forces.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: DESP, IMTSSA, Marseille Armées, France. herve.chaudet@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chaudet
authors.forename: Liliane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pellegrin
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Meynard
authors.forename: Gaëtan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Texier
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tournebize
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Queyriaux
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Boutin
mesh_terms: D001694:Biological Warfare; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008889:Military Personnel; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*