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  • Knowledge Management Tools for the ISDS Community of Practice

    Content Type: Abstract

    Knowledge Management is defined as “the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge.” ISDS members have varying degrees of experience with public health surveillance and syndromic surveillance specifically, and will all… read more
    … is to gather initial requirements and priorities from the CoP. Objective The purpose of the roundtable is to seek … practices, and tools of the ISDS Community of Practice (CoP). 6 views Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on Fri, … is to gather initial requirements and priorities from the CoP. Objective The purpose of the roundtable is to seek …
  • 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
    … §  Visit the GeoVISTA Center Website http://www.geovista.psu.edu/ www.aptima.com Boston ▪ DC ▪ Dayton © 2009, Aptima, Inc. Data … Guidelines §  Provide action at the point of interest –  Co-locate display and control –  Reduce extended mappings, …
  • Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC

    Content Type: Abstract

    Florida has implemented various surveillance methods to augment existing sources of surveillance data and enhance decision making with timely evidence based assessments to guide response efforts post-hurricanes. Historically, data collected from… read more
    … or response events. A new process was implemented for con- ducting surveillance to monitor injury and illness for … or response events. A new process was implemented for con- ducting surveillance to monitor injury and illness for …
  • Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more
    … in the fu- ture. The functionality of this communication com- ponent must balance the utility of immediate situ- … can view the communications logs to better understand and com- pare which detection alarms were met with concern …
  • 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 …
  • Public Health Community Platform: A future solution for a modern public health enterprise

    Content Type: Webinar

    The Public Health Community Platform (PHCP) is a CDC-funded ASTHO project envisioned to provide Universal access to modernized shared resources that efficiently, securely, and collaboratively transform data into action for a healthier nation.… read more
    … to a representative decision making body. – ASTHO/NACCHO co-chairs, 5 at-large members • Future work – Sustainability … engage in the swiftly changing landscape. FUTURE STATE 32 www.ThePHCP.org @PHCommPlatform Marcus Rennick mrennick@astho.org CONTACT 33 http://www.thephcp.org/ mailto:mrennick@astho.org …
  • Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources

    Content Type: Abstract

    Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more
    … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 44 identify clusters by the time … Health Threats Journal A Kite-Powell et al. 2011, 4:s89 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 45 …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

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    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
    … Burkom et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 13 …