Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Flu Fighting Social Media Tools

Five Social Media Tools To Fight The Flu by Bernhard Warner.  Bloomberg Businessweek.  January 16, 2013.

The tools highlighted include Google Flu Trends,  Dizie,  MappyHealth, HealthMap, and Flu Near You.  They use several techniques including analysis of search data, tweets correlated to maps, disease related chatter on tweets, scanning on news aggregators and eyewitness reports, and enlisting users to monitor local disease outbreaks.

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