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  • Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing

    Content Type: Abstract

    When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more
    … XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public … XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public … XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public …
  • Analytic Fusion of ESSENCE Clinical Evidence Sources for Routine Decision Support

    Content Type: Abstract

    Block 3 of the US Military Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources of data. These include administrative clinical encounter records in the… read more
    … and others. CAPER records include a free-text Reason for Visit field, analogous to chief complaint text in civilian … and others. CAPER records include a free-text Reason for Visit field, analogous to chief complaint text in civilian … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0

    Content Type: Abstract

    Regional disease surveillance systems allow users the ability to view large amounts of population health information and examine automated alerts that suggest increased disease activity. These systems require users to view and… read more
    … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the daily … This interpretation is valuable information that may benefit other users. In addition to the …
  • Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI.
    … for classification of syndromic data for tracking ILI may differ regionally, so previously pub- lished study … and excluded one hospital that did not provide ED chief com- plaints. The weekly number of positive viral cultures … with ED data. We used 6 classifications of ILI ED visit data for this analysis: (1) A chief complaint with …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

    Content Type: Abstract

    One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more
    … Results This method was tested and validated on ED visit count data covering over 6 years and aggregated at …
  • The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Every public health monitoring operation faces important decisions in its design phase. These include information sources to be used, the aggregation of data in space and time, the filtering of data records for required… read more
    … alerting methods, we used 3 years of outpatient clinic visit data in which records were classified by syndrome and …
  • Data Visualization for Health Surveillance: Current Concepts and New Horizons

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Wayne Loschen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) Karl Soetebier, MPW, Georgia Division of Public Health Paul Picciano, PhD,… read more
    … for collaborators! §  Contact me at hardisty@psu.edu §  Visit the GeoVISTA Center Website http://www.geovista.psu.edu/ www.aptima.com Boston ▪ DC ▪ Dayton © 2009, Aptima, Inc. Data … Gill Street, Suite 1400 Woburn, MA 01801 ppicciano@aptima.com 781-496-2407 (office) 781-935-4385 (fax) … Presenters …
  • Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more
    … to more appropriately categorize an individual into mul- tiple groups so as to not limit the data utility. Simi- …