Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN):

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• Global Public Health Intelligence Network
  (GPHIN)
• An Early-Warning Global Intelligence Information
  Management (GIIM) Model

Michael Blench GPHIN Technical Advisor, Public
Health Agency of Canada
Laurent Proulx Sr VP and CTO Nstein Technologies
June 7th, 2005
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Agenda

• Public Health
• Organizations at the International level
• Surveillance system
• Background on Global Public Health Intelligence
  Network (GPHIN)
• Scope and versatility
• SARS reporting
• Issues with the GPHIN production prototype
• Nstein Global Intelligent Information
  Management (GIIM)
• GIIM Early Warning System (EWS)
• GPHIN 2 GIIM EWS implementation
• GIIM vertical market solutions
• Homeland Security and Intelligence
• Corporate Intelligence
• Questions

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Public HealthOrganizations at International level

• WHO and GOARN
• Assistance to affected states in the form of
  technical advice and supplies
• on-the-spot investigations, confirmation of
  diagnosis
• case detection, patient management, containment,
  and provision of logistics
• investigative teams dispatched to outbreak site
  within 24 hours
• CDC Center for Disease Control
• US government's lead agency responsible for
  preparedness and response for public health
  issues
• PHAC Public Health Agency of Canada
• Protect the health and safety of Canadians

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Public HealthSurveillance System

• Regional / International level
• Analysis and Feedback. Support
• Policy and targets funding
• Central level
• Analyze, Investigate, Confirm, Plan, Fund,
  Respond, and Feedback
• Intermediate level
• Analyze, Investigate, Report, Respond and
  Feedback
• Peripheral level
• Detect, Treat, Report

WHO
Ministry of Health
Time (Weeks / Months)
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Public Health Surveillance System with GPHIN

• Regional / International level
• Analysis and Feedback. Support
• Policy, target funding
• Central level
• Analyze, Investigate, Confirm, Plan, Fund,
  Respond, Feedback
• Intermediate level
• Analyze, Investigate, Report, Respond, Feedback
• Peripheral level
• Detect, Treat, Report

WHO
Ministry of Health
Time (Weeks / Months)
GPHIN Early Warning System
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GPHIN Early Warning System
Intelligence on Public Health Risks
Information on Public Health Risks

• Over 10 000 sources of information
• Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Russian,
  Chinese (Traditional Simplified)

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Background on Global Public Health Intelligence
Network (GPHIN)

• GPHINs Role and management
• GPHIN was developed by the Public Health Agency
  of Canada
• Primary source of public health information for
  the WHO as well as international governments and
  other non-government public health organizations
• Managed by the Agencys Centre for Emergency
  Preparedness and Response
• Serves as the nerve centre for Canada's expertise
  and research in public health
• Coordinating efforts with other partners
• GPHINs history
• 1997 Idea of two Health Canada physicians
• 1998/99 Prototype developed by Health Canada in
  partnership with WHO
• 2000 Proof-of-concept
• 2001 Prototype deployed into production
• 2002 SARS
• 2003 Collaborative Research Agreement with
  Nstein Technologies Inc.
• 2004 Official launch of GPHIN II at United
  Nations

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GPHIN's Scope Bugs-to-Bombs

• Human diseases -e.g. Ebola
• Animal diseases -e.g. Streptococcus
  suis
• Plant diseases -e.g. Asian soybean
  rust
• Other Biologics -e.g. Anthrax
• Chemical incidents -e.g. Chlorine plume
• Radioactive exposures -e.g. Chernobyl disaster
• Dangerous products -e.g. NSAID, Prozac
• Natural disasters -e.g. Tsunami, 26 Dec
  04

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GPHIN's Versatility Information for Action

• Detect potential public health threats
• Estimate magnitude of the public health threat
• Determine geographic distribution of public
  health threat
• Identify control and preventative measures
  considered and implemented
• Monitor concerns of the general public
• Observe situational politics

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Source of Initial Reporting of WHO Reported
Events of Potential PH Concern01 Jan 2001 to 31
Dec 2002. (n439)
Source WHO 2003
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Issues with the GPHIN production prototype

• Gathers news reports primarily in English with
  limited French
• Need to support WHO official languages
• English, French, Spanish, Russian, Simplified
  Chinese and Arabic
• Events detection based on a limited list of
  keywords
• No state-of-the-art text-mining
• No real time translation of news report
• Need to manually render reports in the analysts
  native language
• Production prototype was not robust, scalable nor
  scope-able
• No collaboration process

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Machine Translation Text Mining

• Gatekeeper / Analysts with topical expertise plus
  linguistic skills provide human quick
  translation of GISTS to improve
  comprehensibility
• Best-of-Breed approach
• Dictionaries / lexicons for each language
• Corpora
• Taxonomy
• Root term
• Synonyms
• Spelling variants of root terms and synonyms
• Meta Data trans-lingual text mining

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GPHIN 2 official launch at the UN on Nov 17th
2004 Nstein Global Intelligent Information
Management
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Nstein Global Intelligent Information Management

• What is Global Intelligent Information Management
  (GIIM) ?
• Nsteins GIIM is an enterprise suite of Advanced
  Business Intelligence solutions that read,
  understand, organize, analyze, discover, share,
  visualize, translate and deliver real-time
  intelligence from any unstructured data source,
  in all major languages
• GIIM value proposition
• The GIIM platform provides a unified,
  multilingual view of an organization's
  informational assets, thus enabling the sharing
  of critical information on a real-time basis and
  the transformation of decision-making from
  reactive to proactive to predictive.

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GIIM telligent solutions
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GIIM Early Warning SystemActionable
intelligence

• EWS Actionable intelligence
• Detect potential threats
• Discover atypical signals
• Collect and connect the dots
• Estimate magnitude of the threat
• Determine geographic distribution

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GIIM Data Collector layerConnect to any source
of strategic unstructured information

• Collects content in native language
• Internet, Research Engine, blogs, Bulletin
  boards, Newsgroup, Email, Chat, File Transfer,
  video, etc
• CRM, ERP, CMS, KM, Portal, etc.
• Private data
• Legacy databases, law enforcement records,
  intelligence reports, etc
• Subscription News feeds
• Hybrid Information
• Bridging two or more potentially correlated
  information sources

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GIIM Advanced Analytics layerTransforming
information into actionable intelligence

• Transform decision-making process from reactive
  to proactive and even to predictive
• Pattern Recognition (Reactive)
• Discover new information based on known patterns
• Derived Analytics (Proactive)
• Establish and construct a standardized view of
  targeted patterns
• Trend Analysis (Predictive)
• Discover intents and create early warning
  Analyzing news in native language
• Key Performance Indicators
• Generate Key Performance Indicator from
  unstructured content create alerts

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GIIM Rendering layerRender multilingual
intelligence reports in real-time

• View the information in native language on demand
• Real-time alerts
• Automatic translation in more than 36 common
  exotic languages
• Powerful Dash Boards rendering
• Collaborative environment Scalable rendering
  in/outside organization
• Monitor emerging concept networks of relationship
• Intelligent Information Retrieval

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GPHIN 2 Production Workflow
Multilingual Sources
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GPHIN 2 Nstein Value Proposition

• High-Impact, Disruptive Technology helping
  preventing health outbreaks by
• Collecting and analyzing collections of
  un/structured multilingual information
• Detecting and connecting valuable and sensitive
  information
• Visualizing actionable Intelligence in native
  language
• Alerting decision-makers in real-time
• Collaborating with other Organizations
• Transforming decision-making process from
  Reactive to Preventive to Predictive mode

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GIIM telligent text mining
solutionsVertical market solutions
Homeland Security Intelligence
Corporate Intelligence
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Homeland Security Intelligence
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Corporate Intelligence emails
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Corporate Intelligence enhancing search
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Corporate Intelligence Clustering
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Corporate Intelligence customer surveys
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Corporate Intelligence News feeds analytics
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