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Communication is difficult in low income areas, given the lack of land based telecommunication and distances between population centers [1]. New methods to monitor/forecast epidemiological trends will enable our military to execute emerging operational requirements. Hand held devices, such as cell phones, smart phones and personal data assistants (PDAs) provide an effective source for collecting, analyzing and widely disseminating healthcare information, because of their widespread use in the very regions to which our military forces are, and will be, deployed. This effort develops handheld device applications that provide health surveillance, epidemiological analysis and forecasting capabilities.
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Cohn, J.V. et al. (2013). Apps for Rapid Epidemiological Analysis (AREA). In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_29
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