{"title":"[Potential use of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in the public health-epidemiology sector of medicine].","authors":"Ferenc Tampu, László Berek","doi":"10.1556/650.2025.33370","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Open-source intelligence is the collection, analysis, and use of information legally obtained from public sources for a specific purpose. Although information obtained from open sources is not validated, it is useful in evidence-based medicine due to its rapid accessibility. In order to contain the spread of epidemics and respond to them, it is essential to obtain information as quickly as possible. The tools and sources of open-source intelligence procedures are therefore used by several institutions established for this purpose, as well as by the World Health Organization. Orv Hetil. 2025; 166(32): 1250–1255.</p>","PeriodicalId":19911,"journal":{"name":"Orvosi hetilap","volume":"166 32","pages":"1250-1255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Orvosi hetilap","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1556/650.2025.33370","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Open-source intelligence is the collection, analysis, and use of information legally obtained from public sources for a specific purpose. Although information obtained from open sources is not validated, it is useful in evidence-based medicine due to its rapid accessibility. In order to contain the spread of epidemics and respond to them, it is essential to obtain information as quickly as possible. The tools and sources of open-source intelligence procedures are therefore used by several institutions established for this purpose, as well as by the World Health Organization. Orv Hetil. 2025; 166(32): 1250–1255.
期刊介绍:
The journal publishes original and review papers in the fields of experimental and clinical medicine. It covers epidemiology, diagnostics, therapy and the prevention of human diseases as well as papers of medical history.
Orvosi Hetilap is the oldest, still in-print, Hungarian publication and also the one-and-only weekly published scientific journal in Hungary.
The strategy of the journal is based on the Curatorium of the Lajos Markusovszky Foundation and on the National and International Editorial Board. The 150 year-old journal is part of the Hungarian Cultural Heritage.