Healthmap getting more use with official groups

Healthmap is one of those resources I've been showing students in class for the past year or two. Here's a nice quick note from Nature Medicine that supports that it's getting more use by official health-related units.

The internet brings massive amounts of data combined with up-to-the-minute changes and flexibility. By culling through this data and tying in geographic mapping, there are some really creative projects that are changing the way we track and predict disease spread.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v18/n2/full/nm0212-185.html?WT.ec_id=NM-201202

Flu Near You service

sponsored by HealthMap, based on weekly voluntary surveys their goal is to map out and track how flu spreads through the region this year. Free registration to participate. Should be really interesting to monitor this

https://flunearyou.org/