Outbreak detector: a web application to boost disease surveillance systems and timely detection of infectious disease epidemics.

Objective: Digital technologies have improved the performance of surveillance systems through early detection of outbreaks and epidemic control. The aim of this study is to introduce an outbreak detection web application called OBDETECTOR (Outbreak Detector), which as a professional web application has the ability to process weekly or daily reported data from disease surveillance systems and facilitates the early detection of disease outbreaks.

Results: OBDETECTOR generates a histogram that exhibits the trend of infection within a time range selected by the user.