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  • Synthesizing the American Health Information Community’s Minimum Data Set

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    One of the challenges facing developers and users of automated disease surveillance systems is being able to accurately evaluate the performance of their systems for the wide variety of public health threats that are possible. A… read more
    … cases representing various types of outbreaks on top of that background. With the introduction of the … have been used to evaluate the ability of algorithms to de- tect the elevated levels [2]. Routine unvalidated out- … cases represent- ing various types of outbreaks on top of that back- ground [3],[4]. With the introduction of …
  • Linking Public Health and Healthcare Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    A number of syndromic surveillance systems include tools that quickly identify potentially large disease outbreak events. However, the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work… read more
    … the high falsepositive rate continues to be a problem in all of these systems. Our earlier work has showed … 5 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … false- positive rate continues to be a problem [4–6] in all of these systems. Our earlier work has showed that …
  • A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a simple technique for utilizing linked health information in syndromic surveillance. Using knowledge of which patient encounters resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of… read more
    … with seasonal respiratory illness outbreaks. The top plot shows all the data, regardless of severity linkage score. The … ratio [1] for this event increased by about 26% as the severity linkage score filtering increased from …
  • The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read more
    … (NCR). The objective of this exercise was to permit all of the health departments in the NCR to exercise … as it both is proprietary and contains protected, though de-identified, health information about real people; nor is … (NCR). The ob- jective of this exercise was to permit all of the health departments in the NCR to exercise inter- …
  • 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
    … heightened local surveillance during mass gatherings due to concerns about increased risk of disease outbreaks. … For the first time, in 2007, health departments in all three Super Bowl-related regions already practiced daily … heightened local surveillance during mass gatherings due to concerns about increased risk of disease outbreaks. …
  • Translational Research for Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 28, 2008 The following presentation was given as part of the Integrated Surveillance Seminar Series from the National Center for Public Health Informatics and provides an overview of public health informatics… read more
    … CDC_Lombardo_012909a.pdf Submitted by elamb on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 19:00 … Encrypted E-Mail Encrypted Transfer Secure FTP Site Hosp. Dir. D at a S ha rin g P ol ic ie s Sufficiently De-Identified Data Elements Sufficiently …
  • Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC

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    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
    … Response (ASPR) to improve surveillance methods in post dis- aster or response events. A new process was implemented … Response (ASPR) to improve surveillance methods in post dis- aster or response events. A new process was implemented …
  • A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements

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    National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… read more
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