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近期听到最酷的技术莫过于“谷歌流感趋势预报”。据说现今美国人怀疑自己身患流感时，第一反应不是去药店，而是先上网Google一下流感症状，作出判断并获得指导信息。谷歌公司籍此机会，又惊艳了一把——感兴趣的同学也可浏览www.google.org/flutrends/了解更多信息哦！
It stands to reason[是当然的] that people who are “starting to come down with something” often take the opportunity
to search for information on what ails[折磨] them, even before
they discuss their symptoms[病症] with a health care
professional. Who gets more of those searches than
anyone? Google, of course.
When Google started looking more closely at anonymous[匿名的] aggregate[集合的] searches for “flu symptoms” and the like, they discovered that – after cross-referencing that data against information from the Center for Disease Control – they had the ability to predict flu outbreaks by monitoring[监视] search patterns. And now, they’ve
published their findings as “Google Flu Trends.”
The effort, part of Google’s non-profit arm[分部],
google.org, could prove to be the first step toward the type of
predictive medical informatics that have long been the Holy Grail of medicine. By making our flu estimates available each day, Google Flu Trends may provide an early-warning system for outbreaks of influenza[流感].
Helping people manage their wellness and health in a preventative way instead of simply treating the disease? That’s a truly innovative[创新的] – and much needed – way of approaching health care. Can Google leverage[起杠杆作用] its wealth of data to help spark that health care innovation?
One would hope. Our health may depend on it.
如果人们觉得自己快要生病了，甚至在他们向保健医生描述症状之前，他们当然会搜索关于所患病症的信息。哪里的搜索结果比其他地方更多？谷歌，当然是谷歌。
当谷歌更为密切地关注那些匿名的主要搜索问题（比如“感冒症状”之类），并将这些数据与来自美国疾病控制中心的信息对照之后，他们发现自己有能力通过监测搜索来预测流感的爆发。现在，他们公布了名为“谷歌流感趋势”的结果
报告。
这一成果部分得益于谷歌的非营利组织google.org，它也许能成为迈向长期以来被誉为“医学界圣杯”的预测性医疗信息学的第一步。通过每天公布流感预测结果，“谷歌流感趋势”可能会为流感爆发提供一套预警系统。
帮助人们采取预防措施来管理自身健康，而不仅仅是治病？这绝对是一种具有创新性的保健方法，也正是人们非常需要的东西。谷歌公司能利用其充足的数据资源的杠杆作用，点亮医学保健的创新之光吗？
人们翘首企盼。我们的健康可能还得靠它呢。
It stands to reason[是当然的] that people who are “starting to come down with something” often take the opportunity
to search for information on what ails[折磨] them, even before
they discuss their symptoms[病症] with a health care
professional. Who gets more of those searches than
anyone? Google, of course.
When Google started looking more closely at anonymous[匿名的] aggregate[集合的] searches for “flu symptoms” and the like, they discovered that – after cross-referencing that data against information from the Center for Disease Control – they had the ability to predict flu outbreaks by monitoring[监视] search patterns. And now, they’ve
published their findings as “Google Flu Trends.”
The effort, part of Google’s non-profit arm[分部],
google.org, could prove to be the first step toward the type of
predictive medical informatics that have long been the Holy Grail of medicine. By making our flu estimates available each day, Google Flu Trends may provide an early-warning system for outbreaks of influenza[流感].
Helping people manage their wellness and health in a preventative way instead of simply treating the disease? That’s a truly innovative[创新的] – and much needed – way of approaching health care. Can Google leverage[起杠杆作用] its wealth of data to help spark that health care innovation?
One would hope. Our health may depend on it.
如果人们觉得自己快要生病了，甚至在他们向保健医生描述症状之前，他们当然会搜索关于所患病症的信息。哪里的搜索结果比其他地方更多？谷歌，当然是谷歌。
当谷歌更为密切地关注那些匿名的主要搜索问题（比如“感冒症状”之类），并将这些数据与来自美国疾病控制中心的信息对照之后，他们发现自己有能力通过监测搜索来预测流感的爆发。现在，他们公布了名为“谷歌流感趋势”的结果
报告。
这一成果部分得益于谷歌的非营利组织google.org，它也许能成为迈向长期以来被誉为“医学界圣杯”的预测性医疗信息学的第一步。通过每天公布流感预测结果，“谷歌流感趋势”可能会为流感爆发提供一套预警系统。
帮助人们采取预防措施来管理自身健康，而不仅仅是治病？这绝对是一种具有创新性的保健方法，也正是人们非常需要的东西。谷歌公司能利用其充足的数据资源的杠杆作用，点亮医学保健的创新之光吗？
人们翘首企盼。我们的健康可能还得靠它呢。