Patent ID: 8660854

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable medium which allows a computer to provide rapid syndrome analysis comprising: a) instructions for measuring a plurality of cumulative sums (CUSUMs) over a plurality of time blocks, each time block being a time interval with a duration from the current date that is different than the duration of the time interval of the other time blocks from the current date, wherein the multiple CUSUMs for a given time block are measured simultaneously and generating CUSUM data in response to an observed value wherein the CUSUM for each time block is generated as follows: S ( t )= S ( t− 1)+ Q ( t )+( K ) wherein S(t) is the CUSUM for the current date and S(t−1) is the CUSUM for the date before the current date which is selected from the group consisting of the calculated CUSUM or a reset value, Q(t) is a function of the observed value for the current day less the weighted mean of the observed values for the time block and K is a predetermined threshold for the time block; b) instructions for comparing said CUSUM data with a predetermined plurality of threshold values for each time block; and c) instructions for generating a signal when said CUSUM data exceeds any of said plurality of threshold values by a predetermined amount.