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  • Can Internet Searches Provide Useful Data For Public Health Surveillance?

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     Internet-based technologies have been used to assist in disease surveillance and reporting.  The Public Health Agency of Canada operates the Global Public Health Information Network, credited with early notification of many outbreaks (… read more
    … ). An innovative web-based forum ( www.RUsick2.msu.edu ) collects foodborne illness reports … internet media sources such as news wires and web pages(www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2004/2004_gphin- … recently released “Google Trends” application (www.google.com/trends) uses a sample of Google web searches to show the …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Practice in the United States: Findings from a Survey of State, Territorial, and Selected Local Health Departments

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    In 2007-2008, the authors surveyed public health officials in 59 state, territorial, and selected large local jurisdictions in the United States regarding their conduct and use of syndromic surveillance. Fifty-two (88%) responded, representing areas… read more
    … Control and Prevention. BioSense. Atlanta, GA: http://www.cdc.gov/biosense/. Accessed November 6, 2008. 6. U.S. … April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006 (NST-EST2006–01). http://www.census.gov/popest/states/ NST-ann-est.html. Accessed … Health Manag Pract 2007;13(2):194–199. http://www.jphmp.com. 18. Heffernan R, Mostashari F, Das D, et al. System …
  • Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data

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    Electronic  Health  Record  (EHR)  data  offers  the  researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease  syndromes. Procedures  performed  on  the  patient, medications… read more
    … (ESSENCE) were included in the analyses. All ESSENCE ICD9-CM code sets can be found at: http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivi … surveillance syndromes. Additional analyses that will be con- ducted include using medications prescribed, and …
  • 21st Century Health Care Demands New Models for Population Health Data Aggregation and Sharing: A Federated Approach

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    This paper describes the value of a distributed approach to population health efforts that span clinical research, quality measurement and public health. The goal of the paper is to challenge the traditional paradigm which relies on centralized data… read more
    … should continue to be explored. REFERENCES [1] http://www.connectingforhealth.org [2] http://www.syndromic.org/projects/DiSTRIBuTE.htm [3] http://www.connectingforhealth.org/resources/first_principles.pdf … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:170 http://www.connectingforhealth.org/ …
  • Review of the ISDS Distributed Surveillance Taskforce for Real-time Influenza Burden Tracking & Evaluation (DiSTRIBuTE) Project 2007/08 Influenza Season Proof-of-concept Phase

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    This paper describes the initiation, development and proof-of-concept phase of the ISDS DiSTRIBuTE influenza morbidity surveillance project [1].
    … figures. Findings were summarized and disseminated via www.syndromic.org. RESULTS During the 2007/08 influenza … (TERS) plots (bottom). REFERENCES [1] DiSTRIBuTE. http://www.syndromic.org/projects/DiSTRIBuTE.htm [2] Olson DR, … Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-21 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071018-10.html …
  • Comparison of Ambulatory Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes

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    This paper describes three years of electronic health record (EHR) data from a network of urban ambulatory care clinics in New York City.
    … Nicholas Soulakis, nsoulaki@health.nyc.gov http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pcip/pcip.shtml Respiratory …
  • Cluster Detection Incorporating Lagged Test Data

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    Using New York Cityís dead bird surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV), this paper presents two explorations of the spatial cluster detection problem in which lagged test results are available for a random subset of observations. First, we… read more
  • Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS

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    Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more
    … that they are for reference but are often not implicitly cor- rect when shown in a map product. REFERENCES [1] …