CDC WONDER: An Informatics Tool for Public Health Practice: PHIN Partner Call

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• Alternative Title:
  Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance.
• Description:
  Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research
  
  • Population health science research
  
  • Evidence-based assessment
  
  • Comparative analysis of summary statistics
  
  • Visual maps & charts
  
  • Large public health data collections
  
  • Ad-hoc data queries
  
  CDC WONDER provides the following services:
  
  Data Sharing in 2013:
  
  • Over 2.7 million custom statistical reports produced
  
  • Nearly 28 million visits to the public web site
  
  • Online access to nearly 300 gigabytes of data
  
  Informatics services:
  
  • Software
  
  • Web service API
  
  • Web hosting
  
  A brief history of CDC WONDER:
  
  • CDC WONDER began on the CDC mainframe in the late 1980’s, under the guidance of Howard Ory, Andrew Friede and Jerry Sanders. The system provided menu-driven, immediate ad-hoc data analysis to CDC scientists.
  
  • CDC WONDER/PC was issued in 1990 (official release in 1992) to EIS officers , state epidemiologists and other external partners. The system provided data analysis and communications with modem dial-up to a toll-free # or local area network connection. Secure email and bulletin boards were available, as well as surveillance data uploads. Design guidance was provided by Howard Ory, Andrew Friede and Joseph Reid.
  
  • WONDER.CDC.GOV was launched on the web in 1995.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Databases, Factual Epidemiology Online Systems Public Health Public Health Surveillance Software
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Name as Subject:
  CDC WONDER
• Genre:
  Presentation
• Pages in Document:
  12 unnumbered slides
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b7c4661c38cba55e8f685e637902324e2484e2ce28078eaf023800d4e6b9b6cad0fea7e47fc8b3d82d0ea8856eb1393197bffb4168398f00c7edaf53bc4eaf16
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/28040/cdc_28040_DS1.pdf
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