A web-based system for infectious disease data integration and sharing: Evaluating outcome, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability

Paul Jen Hwa Hu; Daniel Zeng; Hsinchun Chen; Catherine A. Larson; Chunju Tseng

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_13

A web-based system for infectious disease data integration and sharing: Evaluating outcome, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability

Paul Jen Hwa Hu, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Catherine A. Larson, Chunju Tseng

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Abstract

To better support the surveillance of infectious disease and epidemic outbreaks by public health professionals, we design and implement BioPortal, an advanced Web-based system for cross-jurisdictional information sharing and integration. In this paper, we report two empirical studies that evaluate the outcomes, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability associated with BioPortal. Overall, our results suggest that the use of BioPortal can improve users' surveillance performance as measured by analysis accuracy and efficiency (i.e., the amount of time required to complete an analysis task). Our subjects were highly satisfied with the information support of BioPortal and considered it reasonably usable. Our evaluation findings show the effectiveness and value of BioPortal and, at the same time, shed light on several areas where its design can further improve.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Intelligence and Security Informatics
Subtitle of host publication	Biosurveillance - Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	134-146
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783540726074
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_13
State	Published - 2007
Event	2nd NSF BioSurveillance Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007 - New Brunswick, NJ, United States Duration: May 22 2007 → May 22 2007

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4506 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	2nd NSF BioSurveillance Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Brunswick, NJ
Period	5/22/07 → 5/22/07

Keywords

Cross-jurisdictional information sharing
Infectious disease informatics
Outbreak detection
Public health information systems
System evaluation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Hu, P. J. H., Zeng, D., Chen, H., Larson, C. A., & Tseng, C. (2007). A web-based system for infectious disease data integration and sharing: Evaluating outcome, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability. In Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance - Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, Proceedings (pp. 134-146). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4506 LNCS). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_13

A web-based system for infectious disease data integration and sharing: Evaluating outcome, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability. / Hu, Paul Jen Hwa; Zeng, Daniel; Chen, Hsinchun et al.
Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance - Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, 2007. p. 134-146 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4506 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hu, PJH, Zeng, D, Chen, H, Larson, CA & Tseng, C 2007, A web-based system for infectious disease data integration and sharing: Evaluating outcome, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability. in Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance - Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4506 LNCS, Springer-Verlag, pp. 134-146, 2nd NSF BioSurveillance Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, 5/22/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_13

Hu PJH, Zeng D, Chen H, Larson CA, Tseng C. A web-based system for infectious disease data integration and sharing: Evaluating outcome, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability. In Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance - Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag. 2007. p. 134-146. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_13

Hu, Paul Jen Hwa ; Zeng, Daniel ; Chen, Hsinchun et al. / A web-based system for infectious disease data integration and sharing : Evaluating outcome, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, and usability. Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance - Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, 2007. pp. 134-146 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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