China needs a national intelligent syndromic surveillance system

Nat Med. 2020 Jul;26(7):990. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-0921-5.

Authors

Peng Jia^#^{1

2}, Shujuan Yang^#^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. jiapengff@hotmail.com.
² International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology, Hong Kong, China. jiapengff@hotmail.com.
³ International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology, Hong Kong, China. rekiny@126.com.
⁴ West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. rekiny@126.com.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 32433591
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-0921-5

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence
COVID-19
China / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Disease Outbreaks*
Electronic Health Records
Epidemics*
Geographic Information Systems
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Sentinel Surveillance*