creators_name: Guthrie, Glenn
creators_name: Vinson, Norman G.
creators_name: Moore, Kieran
creators_id: glenn.guthrie@glennross.ca
creators_id: norm.vinson@acm.org
creators_id: kmoore@kflapublichealth.ca
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2010-05-04 22:13:56
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:37
metadata_visibility: show
title: Preferred Workflows for Syndromic Surveillance Systems
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-hci
full_text_status: public
keywords: syndromic surveillance, workflows, task analysis
abstract: Workflows are a sequence of information processing operations that people carry out to meet certain in-formational goals [1]. Using various user-centered design (UCD) techniques we uncovered the workflows that epidemiologists wished to follow when using syndromic surveillance (SS) systems. 
date: 2009-12
date_type: published
refereed: TRUE
referencetext: [1] Unertl, K.M., Weinger, M.B., & Johnson, K.B. Applying Direct Observation to Model Workflow and Assess Adoption. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006; 2006: 794–798.
[2] Buehler, J.W., Sonricker, A., Paladini, M., Soper, M. & Mostashari,  F. Syndromic Surveillance Practice in the United States: Findings from a Survey of State, Territorial, and Selected Local Health Departments. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 2008; 6(3)
[3] Beyer, H., & Holtzblatt, K. Contextual design: Defining customer-centered systems. San Francisco, CA, 1998.

citation:   Guthrie, Glenn and Vinson, Norman G. and Moore, Kieran  (2009) Preferred Workflows for Syndromic Surveillance Systems.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6841/1/vinson_guthrie_moore_ISDS_2009.pdf