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Gossamer Health: A meaningful, open-source approach to shared surveillance software
Content Type: Abstract
Cost-effective, flexible and innovative tools that integrate disparate data sets and allow sharing of information between geographically dispersed collaborators are needed to improve public health surveillance practice. Gossamer Health (Good Open… read more… automated processing of Health Information Exchange data (HIE) as part of the CDC HIE initiative (3) and (4) standard … is a work in progress, but it is a community work. All are welcome to participate in its development. Keywords … -
Identifying Current Practical Analytic Challenges - the Analytic Solutions Committee
Content Type: Webinar
Presented September 21, 2017. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Analytic Solution Committees (ASC) to ISDS members, explaining how the committee works and how it… read more… Community of Practice Call Tuesday, September 26, 3 - 4:30 pm ET Overdose Surveillance Committee Meeting … strategy for completing the process - Meeting of all stakeholders to develop solution OR virtual conference … work: ADDITIONAL NOTES (Optional) Additional comments (I.e. financial concerns, budget constraints, potential … -
Cross-Disciplinary Consultancy to Enhance Predictions of Asthma Exacerbation Risk in Boston
Content Type: Journal Article
This paper continues an initiative conducted by the International Society for Disease Surveillance with funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to connect near-term analytical needs of public health practice with technical expertise from… read more… and modelers. Discussion finalized design of an 8-year de-identified dataset of Boston ED patient records for … and modelers. Discussion finalized design of an 8-year de-identified dataset of Boston ED patient records for … -
Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health department… read more… permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more… to those from CC alone. The false positive fraction of all syndrome definitions was higher in younger children … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology
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Cross-jurisdictional sharing of public health syndrome data is useful for many reasons, among them to provide a larger regional or national view of activity and to determine if unusual activity observed in one jurisdiction is atypical. Considerable… read more… permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Propagating the Effects of Missing Data Sources in a Surveillance System
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A common problem in syndromic surveillance using ED department data is temporary gaps in the data received from individual ED departments caused by delays in receiving the data. Currently most syndromic surveillance systems provide information… read more… 4 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … coded to the respiratory syndrome in 0-2 year olds in all ED departments in Acme County). Data errors in … incomplete, meaning at least one of the data sources did not provide data; or unavailable, meaning that no data … -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
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Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more… visits per day. We then simulated epidemics by creating all possible combinations of 3 different parameters: … syndrome. RESULTS Overall, timeliness was similar for all algorithms, with time to detection ranging between 2 and … after the start of the outbreak. When averaged across all outbreak parameters, the GLM had the best sensi- tivity …