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cord-275056-nl4rhvlu	Turner, Cameron	The ALPHA Project: An architecture for leveraging public health applications	2005-12-13		.txt	text/plain	7392	427	49	The architecture has been used to build eleven surveillance applications for the Public Health Agency of Canada in the areas of disease surveillance, survey, distributed data collection and inventory management. CONCLUSIONS: We have found that a software architecture that addresses requirements on policies, security and flexibility facilitates the development of configurable public health applications. The purpose of the ALPHA Project is to develop a software application architecture based on the philosophy of configuring and reusing common components to produce services that would be used to enable faster development of robust, maintainable public health applications. At the Public Health Agency of Canada, many different surveillance system applications have been developed using different technologies to collect data for specific diseases. For instance, a Disease Access Service uses the Profiler Component to provide the access control functionality specifically for case information on different diseases.	./cache/cord-275056-nl4rhvlu.txt	./txt/cord-275056-nl4rhvlu.txt