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Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Abby Johnson — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:32:45 -0000

This is a pretty old thread, but if anybody is interested, www.germtrax.com does something similar - and leverages social media to build a much more robust tracking system.

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Rex Dixon — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:49:59 -0000

Yes, it's starting to get some traction now. I see that WWD covered it today. :)

Rex

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

hypo — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:10:58 -0000

The CNET video on their site is great...."cough, cough, hack...uh, boss...I
think I'm coming down with something...no, really, I am sick - just check
out WhoIsSick...there is definitely something going around...cough,
sneeze..."

Hypochondriacs arise!

Seriously, I think the site is interesting - especially once it gets more
traction. Its definitely a very innovative approach to healthcare.

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:15:05 -0000

It is a little scary to see all these sickness postings but I guess I would rather know and have access to this than call my doctor to find out...Its a great interface though - really neat features with the live updating graphs and stuff.

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Thad — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:30:05 -0000

I am not health buff but from technology perspective what I like about this site is that it is unlike any google map mashup that I have come across. Mashup usually take data feeds from different sources and then map it. However whoissick seems pretty much user driven, so that to me sounds like a very interesting experiment. Will watch to see how to flourishes or perishes.

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Rex Dixon — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:11:50 -0000

Hey all - It's not perfect, but neither are a lot of new sites. What will make a site better is user interaction and feedback to the ones building it.

Rex

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Rakesh — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:07:06 -0000

Interesting, I agree that I might not myself submit but would definitely submit for somebody else in family! What I like is it so local and current, and user driven unlike CDC which is so dependent on only cases when somebody goes to hospital, and I hope their filters are decent in terms of spam. I have four year old son. My son got hand-mouth-foot infection which he acquired from another kid at school last week and is out of commission right now since it is very infectious and my wife is having hard time managing him at home.

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

WTF — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:01:39 -0000

if you're sick are you really going to want to bother submitting your disease on this website? personally i'd prefer to get some sleep.

and what if you have something like The Clap? You going to put that on there?

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Parent — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:37:24 -0000

as a parent, I love the site. its pretty basic but personally, would check this site often just to see what was going around. like an interactive weather map.

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

Skeptic — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:52:57 -0000

Looks totally useless to me. Nice graphs though.

Re: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

cg — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:40 -0000

you gotta be kidding me