Title :
System for Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis: Design and Evaluation
Author :
Hu, Paul Jen-Hwa ; Zeng, Daniel ; Chen, Hsinchun ; Larson, Catherine ; Chang, Wei ; Tseng, Chunju ; Ma, James
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City
fDate :
7/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
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.
Keywords :
computer architecture; diseases; information analysis; medical computing; medical information systems; BioPortal; IDI system development; analysis accuracy; computer architecture; data sharing; infectious disease informatics; information analysis; information sharing; public health; system usability; task performance efficiency; user information satisfaction; Biomedical informatics; Control systems; Data visualization; Diseases; Information analysis; Management information systems; Performance analysis; Public healthcare; Surveillance; Usability; Infectious disease informatics; outbreak detection; public health information systems; system evaluation; Communicable Diseases; Database Management Systems; Disease Outbreaks; Information Dissemination; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Medical Records Systems, Computerized; Population Surveillance; User-Computer Interface;
Journal_Title :
Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TITB.2007.893286
