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Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more… when there was a more defined purpose to reporting ED visits and admissions (e.g., The Republican National … or sending emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data as structured variables without including the … surveillance and survey data on the value of free-text CC to public health practice. On January 31, 2011, ISDS, in … -
Adaptation of GUARDIAN for Syndromic Surveillance During the NATO Summit
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Special event driven syndromic surveillance is often initiated by public health departments with limited time for development of an automated surveillance framework, which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss… read more… which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss early signs of emerging … which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss early signs of emerging … -
Technical Challenges of Syndromic Surveillance System Deployment in a Health Information Exchange
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Adoption of electronic medical records is on the rise, due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and meaningful use incentives. Simultaneously, numerous HIE initiatives provide data sharing flexibility to… read more… provide data sharing flexibility to streamline clinical care. Due to the consolidated data availability in … provide data sharing flexibility to streamline clinical care. Due to the consolidated data availability in … -
Application of Natural Language Parsers To Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a methodology for applying natural language parsing (NLP) technologies, originally developed for analyzing biomedical journal articles, to the monitoring of emergency department patient charts for infectious diseases of interest.… in our testing, we increased Java’s memory allocation (heap size) setting to 512MB in order to prevent excessively …