Gossamer combines work on (1) methods for automated surveillance based on summarized clinical data, such as the influenza and visit counts used in the Distribute project (1), (2) methods developed for the modularization of surveillance processes developed for the Shoki project (2), (3) methods developed for the automated processing of Health Information Exchange data (HIE) as part of the CDC HIE initiative (3) and (4) standard industry server virtualization and deployment techniques (4).