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BioSense--a national initiative for early detection and quantification of public health emergencies.

Loonsk JW.

Information Resources Management Office, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd, Mailstop D-45, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. jloonsk@cdc.gov

BioSense is a national initiative to enhance the nation's capability to rapidly detect, quantify, and localize public health emergencies, particularly biologic terrorism, by accessing and analyzing diagnostic and prediagnostic health data. BioSense will establish near real-time electronic transmission of data to local, state, and federal public health agencies from national, regional, and local health data sources (e.g., clinical laboratories, hospital systems, ambulatory care sites, health plans, U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Administration medical treatment facilities, and pharmacy chains).

PMID: 15714629 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]