National Health Alarm Services: Predict and prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases through combination of various big data
This practice has provided variety health alarms to the public before the epidemic spreads out. 2 3 It combines different data from diverse sources such as national health information from National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), social data from Twitter, climate information from National Meteorological Office (NMO), air pollution information from Environmental Science Institute (ESI) and number of food poisoning confirmed from Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). Five infectious disease : cold, eye disease, food poisoning, dermatitis and asthma are continuously monitored.