Real-Time Outbreak Disease Surveillance

In 1999, the University of Pittsburgh s Center for Biomedical Informatics deployed the first automated bioterrorism detection system, called RODS (Real-Time Outbreak Disease Surveillance). RODS is designed to draw collect data from... 

Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Project. RODS, which began in western Pennsylvania in 1999, now collects data from emergency departments, urgent care facilities, and clinical laboratories in several states (Wagner et al., 2004). In 2003, the system became available as open-source software, and it is now also in use in several foreign countries (RODS, 2006). 

Wagner, M. W, Espino, J., Tsui, F-C., Gesteiand, R, Chapman, W, Ivanov, 0. et al. (2004). Syndrome and outbreak detection using chief-complaint data—Experience of the Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance project. In Syndromic Surveillance Reports from a National Conference, 2003. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 53(Suppl.), 28-31. 

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