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Lojo Jose

Description

Recent efforts to share syndromic surveillance data have focused on developing national systems, namely BioSense 2.01 . The problems with creating and implementing national systems, such as legal issues, difficulties in standardizing syndrome definitions, data quality, and different objectives, are well documented. In contrast, several local health departments have successfully shared data and analyses with each other, primarily during emergency events. The benefits of locally-driven data sharing include: (1) faster dissemination of data and analyses that have been created by those who understand the nuances of their own data, (2) easier process of standardizing syndrome definitions, (3) quickly designing appropriate analyses for the event, (4) smaller group of partners for consensus-building, and (5) ultimately improved timeliness in detection of public health events. The strategies used to share data and analyses between local and state health departments during planned and unplanned events may be informative to national systems.

Objective

To outline successful strategies for regional data-sharing and discuss how these strategies can be applied to other regions.

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Description

The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) will hold its thirteenth annual conference in Philadelphia on December 10th and 11th, 2014.  The society’s mission is to improve population health by advancing the science and practice of disease surveillance, and the annual conference advances this mission by bringing together practitioners and researchers from multiple fields involved in disease surveillance, including public health, epidemiology, health policy, biostatistics and mathematical modeling, informatics and computer science. This year the conference received a record number of abstract submissions (267), from 33 countries. We accepted 102 abstracts for oral presentations, along with 40 lightning talks and 100 posters.

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Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2014 ISDS Conference! This webinar will highlight the abstract submission process, and the Pre-Conference Trainings.