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  • Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records

    Content Type: Abstract

    TOA identifies clusters of patients arriving to a hospital ED within a short temporal interval. Past implementations have been restricted to records of patients with a specific type of complaint. The Florida Department of Health uses TOA at the… read more
    … to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records …
  • 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 … and others. CAPER records include a free-text Reason for Visit field, analogous to chief complaint text in civilian …
  • Sharing Public Health Information with Non-Public Health Partners

    Content Type: Abstract

    Automated Electronic Disease Surveillance has become a common tool for most public health practitioners. Users of these systems can analyze and visualize data coming from hospitals, schools, and a variety of sources to determine the health of their… read more
    … this information, however, can be difficult due to lack of secure tools and guidance policies. This abstract … this information, however, can be difficult due to lack of secure tools and guidance policies. This abstract …
  • 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
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  • 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 …
  • 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.
    … 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 …
  • 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
    … share similar meta-information. Another issue was the lack of automatic notification for new events/comments. …