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Analysis of Alternatives for Combined and/or Collaborative Syndromic Surveillance Within DoD and VA
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The Joint Incentive Fund (JIF) Authorization creates innovative DoD/VA sharing initiatives. In 2009, DoD and VA commenced a biosurveillance JIF project whose principle objectives include improved situational awareness of combined VA/ DoD populations… read more -
Mining Pattern Model of Influenza Surveillance
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This paper presents an investigation using data mining techniques to model patterns of influenza from positive case demographics, symptoms and laboratory tests. -
Monitoring Influenza Activity Using the BioSense System, 2003-2005
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One of the standard approaches to public health surveillance for influenza is to monitor the percent of visits to about 2000 sentinel physicians for influenza-like illness (%ILI; fever plus cough or sore throat). The BioSense System currently… read more -
Use of Severity Indicators in a Public Health Surveillance System
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Data streams related to case severity have been added to the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the Department of Defense (DoD), as an additional… read more -
Using Social Media for Biosurveillance: Gap between Research and Action
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There is a significant body of literature on the use of social media for monitoring ailments such as influenza-like illness1 and cholera,2 as well as public opinions on topics such as vaccination.3 In general, these studies have shown that social… read more -
Utility of Data Fusion for Public Health Monitors: Lessons Learned from a Beta Test
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The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) supports the development of new analytical tools to improve alerting in the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring… read more -
Graduate-Level Syndromic Surveillance Course, An International Society for Disease Surveillance Project
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Following the development of an introductory Continuing Education (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease Surveillance recognized the need to educate future non-… read more -
Automated Real-Time Surveillance Using Health Indicator Data Received at Different Time Intervals
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center have developed a hybrid processing engine that alerts monitors when a severe health condition exists based on corroboration among several sources of data.… read more