Web-based technologies continue to make an impact on the way we talk about/distribute health information. The big news today is the launch of Google’s Flu Trends: http://www.google.org/flutrends/ This website provides near real-time data on known cases of influenza, around the country. You can get information for the entire U.S. or state-level. This is an exciting breakthrough because of the quickness in information. Normally, it would take two weeks to gather a recent count of flu cases.
This also makes me wonder how programs like Twitter could be used in the future to alert specific areas of increased flu or disease risk. Campuses have already used Twitter to quickly post security alerts. Certainly, the same could be done with health-related outbreaks.
-posted by Tad Spencer
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