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  • Discover the 2014 ISDS Conference

    Content Type: Webinar

    Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2014 ISDS Conference! This webinar will highlight the… read more
    … include brief overviews by Scientific Program Committee Co-chairs, Ian Painter and José Lojo, and Pre-Conference … of Washington, 2014 Scientific Program Committee Co-chair José Lojo, MPH,  Philadelphia Department of Public Health, 2014 Scientific Program Committee Co-chair Date and Time Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:00 PM - …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … Olson et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4949 SAS if preferred. Sites were asked … M, Buehler JW, Mostashari F. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:185 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3307/2456. 2 Paladini M, … J, Murray E, Gunn J, Olson D. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:50 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3252/2359. 3 Pendarvis J, …
  • Monitoring winter-seasonal acute gastroenteritis emergency department visits by age

    Content Type: Abstract

    Epidemic acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major contributor to the global burden of morbidity and mortality. Rotavirus and norovirus epidemics present a significant burden annually, with their predominant impact in temperate climates occurring… read more
    … for defeating rotavirus. Sci Am. 2006;294: 46�55. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16596879. 2. Lopman BA, Hall AJ, … 1996�2007. Clin Infect Dis. 2011;52: 466�74. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21258098. 3. Tate JE, Cortese … Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011;30(1 Suppl):S56�60. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21183842. 4. Olson DR, Paladini …
  • An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms

    Content Type: Abstract

    As major disease outbreaks are rare, empirical evaluation of statistical methods for outbreak detection requires the use of modified or completely simulated health event data in addition to real data. Comparisons of different techniques will be more… read more
    … for out- break detection requires the use of modified or com- pletely simulated health event data in addition to real … of Bell Labs’ S language, which includes many of the com- ponents needed for anomaly detection and analysis, such … detection1 and verified them on test data (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/ears /datasets.asp), and have …
  • 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
    … Agenda for Syndromic Surveillance http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0033354917709784 Add research priority … name: Jurisdiction or affiliation: Phone: Email: Co-submitters and affiliations: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION …
  • Some Interactive Data Exploration Tools for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.
    … Web Consortium. Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG). http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ [2] NPD group. Macromedia Flash and … Players. Online survey, conducted April 2006. http://www.adobe.com/ products/player_census/npd/ Further Information: Ian …
  • 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
    … 2003�04 influenza season, which had relatively less co-circula- tion of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) com- pared to most years, and (2) the ‘‘concomitant’’ … seasons (excluding 2003�04), when influenza and RSV co-circulation was high. Analyses during the concomitant …
  • Rapid ad-hoc cross-jurisdictional sharing of syndrome data using Distribute technology

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … paradigm.Health Aff (Mill- wood). 2009;28:454�66. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ 19276005. 2. Olson DR, Paladini … Concept, 2006 to 2009. PLoS Curr. 2011;3:RRN1251. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.- gov/pubmed/21894257. 3. www.gossamerhealth.org. *Ian Painter E-mail: ipainter@uw.edu …