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Ten Years of Syndromic Surveillance in New Hampshire: Innovation, Experience and Outcomes
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In response to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the NH Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) engaged state and external partners in the design of an early warning surveillance system to support bioterrorism and emergency… read more… (2) early detection of naturally occur- ring outbreaks (i.e., influenza). The OTC pharmaceutical system was … later expanded to include drill down custom querying for all 26 acute care hospitals (allowing NH to realize … and identified reportable disease occur- rences (i.e., Lyme disease) and nonreportable clusters (i.e., carbon … -
Planning & Development of a Regional Integrated Disease Surveillance System
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Shenzhen is a special economic region in southern China, adjacent to Hong Kong, with a population of approximately 14 million. The pioneering efforts of Shenzhen in the development of electronic disease surveillance started as… read more… plans. This paper introduces a new model, which was de- veloped in 2007 for Shenzhen regional surveillance … design, and development and implementation plans for all appli- cations. In the implementation plan, the project … -
Development of an Integrated Surveillance System for Beijing
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After the SARS outbreak in 2003, Beijing established Fever Clinics in major hospitals for the early detection of potential respiratory disease outbreaks. The data collection in Fever Clinics contains the basic patient information, body temperature,… read more… hospital infectious disease workers have to re- type all case data in the format just for this reporting system … METHODS The integrated surveillance system for Beijing is de- signed with multi-level surveillance, such as patient …