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Sharing Public Health Information with Non-Public Health Partners
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Automated Electronic Disease Surveillance has become a common tool for most public health practitioners. Users of these systems can analyze and visualize data coming from hospitals, schools, and a variety of sources to determine the health of their… read more… Disseminating this information, however, can be difficult due to lack of secure tools and guidance policies. This … Disseminating this information, however, can be difficult due to lack of secure tools and guidance policies. This … -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more… tra- ditionally relies on diagnosis, must be altered to de- velop an interpretation of less specific health indica- … tools must take into ac- count the normal deviations of all of the variables that comprise the background for the … and evidence-based decisions. Combining the trends of all available indicators can provide and earlier …