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Selecting Essential Information for BiosurveillanceÃA Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
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The National Strategy for Biosurveillance defines biosurveillance as 'the process of gathering, integrating, interpreting, and communicating essential information related to all-hazards threats or disease activity affecting human, animal, or plant… read more -
Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance
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Situational awareness is important for both early warning and early detection of a disease outbreak, and analytics and tools that furnish information on how an infectious outbreak would either emerge or unfold provide enhanced situational awareness… read more -
Biosurveillance Data Stream Framework: A Novel Approach to Characterization and Evaluation
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Multiple data sources are used in a variety of biosurveillance systems. With the advent of new technologies, globalization, high performance computing, and "big data" opportunities, there are seemingly unlimited potential data streams that could be… read more -
Contextualizing Data Streams for Infectious Disease Surveillance
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was tasked with developing methods to determine the relevance of data streams for an integrated global biosurveillance system. We used a novel method of evaluating the effectiveness of data streams called the '… read more -
Enhancing Situational Awareness by Ground Truthing with Historical Outbreaks
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop tools that enhance situational awareness in infectious disease surveillance. We have applied the concept of the surveillance window to the… read more