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RODS Open Source Project - Open Source Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Software
http://openrods.sourceforge.net/

Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) is open-source public health surveillance software. RODS collects and analyzes disease surveillance data in real time and has been in development since 1999 by the RODS Laboratory. In 2002, the Utah Department of Health used the software for monitoring during the Winter Olympics Games. At present, health departments and other groups in the United States, Canada and Taiwan use the software. The open-source phase of the project began in August, 2003, when the University of Pittsburgh released the source code under the GNU GPL. (The software is currently licensed under the Affero GPL — so they could close the services provider loophole. Groups that utilize version 4.2.5 or later of RODS must release their improvements to the open source project according to this license.) At the same time, the RODS Laboratory created this web site to distribute the source code and to encourage developers, consultants, academics, and companies to participate in the creation of the most innovative outbreak and disease surveillance software in existence. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Informtion Blog.