System for infectious disease information sharing and analysis: Design and evaluation

Paul Jen Hwa Hu, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Catherine Larson, Wei Chang, Chunju Tseng, James Ma

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Abstract

Motivated by the importance of infectious disease informatics (IDI) and the challenges to IDI system development and data sharing, we design and implement BioPortal, a Web-based IDI system that integrates cross-jurisdictional data to support information sharing, analysis, and visualization in public health. In this paper, we discuss general challenges in IDI, describe BioPortal's architecture and functionalities, and highlight encouraging evaluation results obtained from a controlled experiment that focused on analysis accuracy, task performance efficiency, user information satisfaction, system usability, usefulness, and ease of use.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)483-492
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Volume11
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2007

Keywords

  • Infectious disease informatics
  • Outbreak detection
  • Public health information systems
  • System evaluation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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