In 2005 an agricultural expert from Israel went for 6 days to India to participate in a farming project. He returned to Israel, and the following morning developed fever, headache, vomiting and muscle pain. Read the latest case of the month, Agriculture Expert in India, about how GIDEON helped save this person’s life.

Traditionally GIDEON has been used by Travel Medicine practitioners, who have loved the detailed country information for the various diseases affecting travelers. Their main suggestion was to add more pre-travel information that could be provided to travelers at consultations. We’re happy to announce that we listened and have now launched a new Travel tab in the Epidemiology module.

The general pre-travel information is provided by region and is divided into Professional and Traveler sections. Professional is for health practitioners and is based on content from the CDC Yellow book. Links are provided directly to relevant disease information in GIDEON. Traveler is traveler friendly content from the CDC Traveler’s health destination guide. Links are provided to additional information from the CDC.
The Country section displays the list of all the relevant diseases that have additional information for travelers to the selected country. The content is presented briefly as a “mouse over” and can be accessed more thoroughly by linking to actual country note for the specific disease.

As with all the information in GIDEON, you can print and email each section information. This will be very useful to serve your travelers that want a hard copy of the information or a soft copy via email.

“Traveling with GIDEON” (video) is a new case of the month that provides examples of how to use the Travel tab.

We just launched a great new feature, Diagnosis search. This provides for an alternate method for entering signs, symptoms and country of acquisition. You can just type them, or their synonyms. See the Getting an Itch on Bali case of the month, or watch the video.

You can search for keywords in GIDEON using the text search feature. Searches case of the month provides some examples, available as a video as well.

A new feature has been added to diagnosis result to help diagnose “first cases” of a disease which has never before appeared in a given country. See “The First Case” Scenario case of the month, or watch the video.

We’ve received frequent request for one page examples of how to use GIDEON. “Case of the month” is an area of the website that demonstrates various aspects of GIDEON. Each case includes a PDF document that can be used as a handout.
For example, the case “West Nile Fever” – Staying in Real Time shows how to use GIDEON to keep track of the latest information regarding West Nile Fever globally.

One of the most powerful features in GIDEON are the graphs. They allow for both visually displaying the data available in GIDEON and for interactively creating an endless number of comparison graphs. They are available in 2 sections of the epidemiology module:

1. Country notes – There are over 20,000 graphs (with more than 300,000 data points) in the disease country notes, which follow the incidence, prevalence, death rates and many other parameters of every disease in GIDEON. Each incidence graph also displays the disease rate of the country based on the population that year.
See some examples in the description of the Graphs feature.

2. Graphs tab in Epidemiology. This is a module for selecting up to 6 datasets to compare the graphs of cases and rates of diseases from different countries.
See the Graphs on Graphs case of the month and video.