HealthMap3.0TutorialJuly2010

RegisteringforHealthMapAccount

•  Registra)onisnotrequiredtouseHealthMap–  However,thera)ngalertsandcommen)ngfeaturesareonlyavailabletoregisteredusers

•  Registra)onisquickandrequiresminimalinforma)on

RegisteringforHealthMapAccount

•  Finalstepistocheckyouremailtoconfirmrequest

LoggingIn•  LogintoHealthMapfromthemainpageintheupperright‐handcorner•  Clickon‘forgotpassword’ifneeded

MainPageFeatures•  Defaultmapviewshowsprevious3days

–  Ifloggedinacustomdefaultviewcanbesetoryoucanvisit‘AdvancedSearch’tochangethe)mewindow

•  Pinsareforpreciselyplacedalerts;Dotsrepresentcountry,state,orprovince‐widealerts

•  Thecolorofthemarkerisbasedonanalgorithmreflec)ng:–  Time‐frameofalerts–  Numberofalertsforloca)on

–  Numberofsourcesprovidinginfo

•  QuickViews–  Presettabstoquicklyviewspecificdata

•  CurrenttabsforPrevious3days,OilSpillrelated,UsersubmiTed,Recentlyrated,Worldwide,andHai)

•  Loggedinusersareabletomanageorderoftabs,tabsavailable,seta‘home’view,andsharetabswithotherusers

MulA‐StreamAlarming:HeatIndex

•  Meta‐alertcompositescore,basedon–  Numberofsourcesprovidinginforma)onatapar)cularloca)on

–  Recentnessofalert–  Reliabilityofsource

•  Markeralgorithm–  Exponen)allyweightedalerts–  Increaseheat(redness)formorerecenteventandhigherimpact

•  Weareworkingonupda)ngthisalgorithmtoreflectaddi)onalvariablessuchas:–  Morbidity,mortality,virulenceforspecificdiseases

–  Popula)on

low high

SearchBox

•  Auto‐fillsearchboxshowsdiseasesandloca)onsmatchingtextandwillzoomtochosenloca)onorshowallalertsmatchingchosendisease

AdvancedSearchFeature

•  Advancedsearchopensaboxshowingcurrentlyselectedse[ngs–  Allowsforacustomizedviewofspecifieddiseases,loca)ons,alertfeeds,and)me‐frame

AdvancedSearchFeature•  Selec)ng‘Dengue’asthediseaseand‘Brazil’astheloca)on

zoomsusertoBrazilandshowsonlyDenguealerts–  Givesop)onbelowtosaveasaQuickViewifloggedin(seearrow)

QuickViews•  TosaveanadvancedsearchasaQuickView,namethemapandgiveabriefdescrip)on–  Savedalertbecomesnew“Home”andwillopenautoma)callyuponlogin

•  ClickmanagetochangeQuickViewpreferences

ClickingonanAlert•  Clickingonapinordotopensalertsforthatloca)on•  Withinthebubble:

–  Symbolshowssourceofalert–  Loggedinusersmayrateandcommentonalerts

–  Clickingdoublearrowopensrelatedalerts

Icon shows that this alert came from ProMED-mail Comment or

rate alert

Click to view related alerts

RelatedAlerts

The ‘Related Alerts’ window will provide additional alerts from the same country and for the same disease

FullScreenMode•  ClickingFullScreenMode:

–  Opensmapfullyandrotatesbetweenalertsandzoomlevels

–  ‘Stopmarkerrota)on’inupperle`‐handcornerwillpausemovement–  Use‘Esc’keytoexit

ListViewofAlertsontheMap•  AlertsshowingonmaparealsoavailableinlistformatattheboTomofthescreentoinclude:–  Alertsource–  Dateand)tleofalert–  Diseaseandloca)on–  Casesanddeaths(aslistedinalert)–  Significancera)ng(ifavailable)

•  Alertscanbesortedbythesevariables Sorted by # of cases

OutbreakMissingFeature

•  Clickingon‘outbreakmissing’allowsuserstoaddanalert(apersonaleyewitnessreportornewslink)

•  Justselecttabforpreferredmethodofrepor)ng

Select tab for method you would like to submit report (Here ‘online form’ was selected and ‘share a news report’ was clicked)

Enter link to news article and email address

Link submitted

Title of alert

Disease auto-detected by HealthMap system

•  UponenteringanewslinkyouwillbesentanemailwithlinktoallowyoutomakechangestosubmiTedalert

OutbreakMissingFeature

Place auto-detected by HealthMap system

OutbreakMissingFeature

•  AllsubmiTedreportsarereviewedpriortoshowingonthemap

•  AlertssubmiTedbyHealthMapusersarelistedunder‘HMCommunityNewsReports’

OutbreakMissingFeature•  AlertscanalsobesubmiTedvia:

–  Emailtohotline@healthmap.org–  Voiceortextmsgto+1919‐MAP‐1‐BUG(919‐627‐1284)

–  The‘OutbreaksNearMe’freemobileapplica)onforiPhoneandAndroidSmartphones;moreinfoavailableathTp://healthmap.org/outbreaksnearme/

HealthMapinOtherLanguages

•  HealthMapisavailablein7languagestoincludeEnglish,Spanish,French,Portuguese,Russian,ChineseandArabic

•  Defaultlanguageauto‐detected,howeveryoucanselectpreferredlanguageviadropdownmenuinlower‐le`cornerofmainpage

•  Alertsareautoma)callytranslatedintolanguageofHealthMapversionyouareviewing

•  Symbolshowsar)clehasbeentranslatedbyGoogletranslateu)lity:

•  Viewongoingresearchprojects,collabora)ons,press,andpublica)onsbyclickingonthe‘About’linkinthelowerle`‐handcorneroftheHealthMapmainpage

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HealthMap awards & recent press

Newsletters, Publications & Presentations

Funding & Collaborations

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