A method is provided for automatically identifying a disease outbreak indicative of a potential bio-terror attack. Patient records are mined from structured and unstructured clinical sources. The patient records are then analyzed by correlating selected patient data contained in the patient records with...http://www.google.de/patents/US7457731?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7457731 - Early detection of disease outbreak using electronic patient data to reduce public health threat from bio-terrorism
