Leveraging Social Media for Flu Surveillance (2010–2015)

Goal:
To explore and define the requirements and processes necessary to leverage a social media platform, such as Twitter, to augment influenza surveillance. In other words, being able to conclude if the signals were modifiable instead of simply listening to Twitter activity and filtering the signal from the noise.

Summary:
The Informatics Innovation Unit completed a mobile app to explore and define the requirements and processes necessary to leverage a social media platform.