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Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption
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To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more -
Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
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This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
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This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance. -
Surveillance Systems that Include Deprivation Indices & Social Determinants of Health
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In 2012, Canada and other World Health Organization Member States endorsed the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, a global commitment to address health inequities by acting on the social, economic, environmental, and other… read more -
Real-Time Surveillance of Environmental and Demographic Data in Ontario with PHIMS
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Geographic Information System (GIS) applications are increasingly being used for public health purposes. GIS technology provides visual tools – through the creation of computerized maps, graphs, and tables of geographic data – that can assist with… read more -
Facilitating the Sharing of Patient Information Between Health Care Providers
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In the current state of the health care system there is uneven access to primary care, and too many people struggling to navigate the system are receiving care in the hospital for issues that would be better dealt with in the community, and then are… read more -
Tracking Trends in Marginalization and Deprivation Across Ontario with SDOH Mapper
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Geographic Information System (GIS) technology provides visual tools, through the creation of computerized maps, graphs, and tables of geographic data, which can assist with problem solving and inform decision-making. One of the GIS tools being… read more -
Using Health Helpline Mediated Self-Swabbing as a Surveillance Tool for Influenza
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Currently, three main sources of data are used to monitor the prevalence of influenza in Ontario: Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) FluWatch, Ontario’s Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) data and Public Health Ontario’s (PHO) traditional… read more