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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 -
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 -
Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance
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Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… 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