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Revitalizing the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)
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The Global Public Health Intelligence Network is a non-traditional all-hazards multilingual surveillance system introduced in 1997 by the Government of Canada in collaboration with the World Health Organization.1 GPHIN software collects news… read more -
DADAR: A New Situational Awareness Platform for Data Analysis, Detection and Response
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We previously experimented with tracking influenza in ER chief complaint data using existing syndromic surveillance tools. We identified several deficiencies in these tools: poor natural language processing, inefficient user interfaces, frequent (… read more -
Detecting Outbreaks in Time-Series Data with RecentMax
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We implemented the CDC EARS algorithms in our DADAR (Data Analysis, Detection, and Response) situational awareness platform. We encountered some skepticism among some of our partners about the efficacy of these algorithms for more than the simplest… read more