OutbreakId

OutbreakID was developed for physicians and public health professionals who stand on the frontlines as the key agents for the early detection of outbreaks. OutbreakID covers potential outbreaks caused by exposures to toxins, chemicals, and infectious agents. It covers 156 infectious diseases, including nearly every disease listed in the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual.

The value of the application lies in its scope and its easy-to-navigate design. It includes chemical and biological weapons, emerging infectious diseases, foodborne illness, occupational diseases, zoonoses, and arthropod-borne infections. Users can query the database of 199 diseases by 137 findings, 15 syndromes, 102 jobs, 102 activities, 39 epidemiological factors, and 16 regions of the world.

OutbreakID, now in PDA format, gives physicians and public health professionals all the information at their fingertips for the early detection of outbreaks.
Features include:

• Explore the database of 199 diseases in 16 categories
• Search for diseases by "Disease Name" or "Disease Criteria"
• Verify findings and epidemiological factors with references listed for each disease
• Query by one or more disease criteria with the option for "AND" or "OR" searches
• Access diseases worldwide or limit the search to those endemic to the United States
• Bookmark your most often used searches, for quick access
• Keep Notes on Diseases for your own reference

"The most important part of preparation is a concerted medical education effort. These are diseases and intoxications that are not part of our everyday practice, medical conditions that many of us may have last thought about during medical school."
(Eitzen E. Education is the Key to Defense Against Bioterrorism. Ann Emerg Med 1999;34:221-223.)
"The increasing threat of bioterrorism and the growing emergence of infectious diseases worldwide prompt the demand for new surveillance systems to detect disease more rapidly. Integral to these systems is the active participation of front-line healthcare providers who will be among the first to detect the possibility of a disease outbreak."
( Nierengarten MB, Lutwick L, Lutwick S. "Syndrome-Based Surveillance for Clinicians on the Frontlines of Healthcare: Focus on Rapid Diagnosis and Notification." http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/2427)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Includes a 12 Month Subscription of Automatic Updates:
A 12 month Subscription entitles you to 12 months of automatic content and application updates. When the program is installed to your PDA, simply synchronize your PDA with your computer while connected to the internet to receive the latest updates. You can still use the application after the 12 month subscription expires, but you will no longer receive updates.
PC requirements:
- Windows 98/NT/2000/XP with 128MB Ram and 9MB for Palm/28MB for PPC on hard drive
- Palm Desktop 4.1.4 or greater (if using Palm)
- Microsoft ActiveSync 3.5 or greater (if using PocketPC)
Palm PDA requirements:
- Palm OS 3.2 or greater
- 1.5 MB of available memory (additional main memory may be needed when installed to memory card*)
PocketPC PDA requirements:
- Windows CE 3.0/Windows Mobile 2000 or greater
- 3 MB of available memory

*all VFS compliant memory cards and memory sticks are compatible

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