1. Research Grid Services to Support Disease Surveillance
Public Health Research Grid
International D, Session E3
26 August 2008
Joe Lombardo, Wayne Loschen, Zara Mnatsakanyan,
Linda Moniz, Mohammad Hashemian, Anna Buczak, Nathaniel Tabernero
This presentation was supported by Grant Number P01 HK from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.

2. JHU/APL COE Surveillance Demo
Using Grid Services
JHU/APL Demo Client Web Client / Portal
Requests
Interaction
Data
Management
User
Interfaces
IDSS
Detection /
Classification
Analytics Service
InfoShare
Data / Information
Sharing Service
EMERGE Synthetic
Medical Records
Generator
Data Service
JHU/APL Research Grid Services
Globus Toolkit Components
Security
OGSA-DAI
Grid FTP

3. … Disease Surveillance Using PHGrid Services User Client User Client
Public Health Community Users
User Client
Requests
Interaction
Data
Management
User
Interfaces
User Client
Requests
Interaction
Data
Management
User
Interfaces
User Client
Requests
Interaction
Data
Management
User
Interfaces
PHGrid Services
Medical Records
Generator
Data Service
Detection /
Classification
Analytics Service
Analysis
Visualization
Service
InfoShare
Data / Information
Sharing Service …
Globus Toolkit Components
Security
OGSA-DAI
Grid FTP
Data Bases
PHGrid Resources
Public Health Community Users
HIE
OTC
NIH
CDC
Computational

4. Electronic MEdical Records GEnerator
A Synthetic Medical Records Data Service
Client
Application
Potential
Future
PHGrid
Data Services
Request
Parameters
Reviews
Existing Data
Sets to
Match No
Requests
Interaction
HIEs
Yes
Request
For
Background
Data
Send
Data to the
Requestor
BioSense
Management
Data
Existing
Data
Sets
Disease
Outbreak
Model
JHU/APL Demo Client Web Application / Portal
Care Model
Identification
Patient
Injection
Model
RBNR
Grid User
Interfaces
User
Modified
Background
Background
& Outbreak
Data Merge
EMERGE

5. Intelligent Decision Support Service
JHU/APL Demo Client Web Application / Portal
Requests
Interaction
Data
Management
User
Interfaces
Future PHGrid Resources
Computational

6. InfoShare Data and Information Sharing
Grid Service
Future
Federation of
Surveillance
Systems
Client
Implemented
Creator
InfoShare Grid Service
Local HD
Viewer
Create
Editor
Edit
State HD
Archive
View
GIS
Get Ref.
Lists
BioSense
Graphing
Mark Read
Get Field
Info.
HIE
Auto MSG
Creation
Care
Provider
Subscription
Regional
System
Notification
Future
InfoShare Clients can use
the Reference Implementation
or their own.
Reference
Implementation
Member
of the
Federation

22. Conclusions
Emerging technologies will permit disease surveillance to be performed in a collaborative environment.
The demonstration just provided shows how multiple grid services can be used to support surveillance functions in a federated environment.