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Quality of Data Used for Syndromic Surveillance
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Nearly all of the myriad activities (or use cases) in clinical and public health (e.g., patient care, surveillance, community health assessment, policy) involve generating, collecting, storing, analyzing, or sharing data about individual patients or… read more -
A Novel, Context-Sensitive Approach to Anonymizing Spatial Surveillance Data: Impact on Outbreak Detection
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The use of spatially-based methods and algorithms in epidemiology and surveillance presents privacy challenges for researchers and public health agencies. We describe a novel method for anonymizing individuals in public health datasets, by… read more -
A Visual Analytics Toolkit for Evaluating Potential Syndromic Outbreaks
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Our toolkit adds statistical trend analysis, interactive plots, and kernel density estimation to an existing spatio-temporal visualization platform. The goal of these tools is to provide both a quick assessment of the current… read more -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing
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In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more -
Evaluating the Performance of a Spatial Scan Statistic Using Simulated Outbreak Characteristics
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Research evaluating the use of spatial data for surveillance purposes is ongoing and evolving. As spatial methods evolve, it is important to characterize their effectiveness in real-world settings. Assessing the performance of… read more -
Evaluating the Variation on Public Health's Perceived Field Need of Communicable Disease Reports
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Communicable disease surveillance is a core Public Health function. Many diseases must be reported to state and federal agencies (1). To manage and adjudicate such cases, public health stakeholders gather various data elements. Since cases are… read more -
State and Local Health Agency Engagement in HIE: A Cross-Sectional Survey
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There is growing interest in leveraging available health information exchange (HIE) infrastructures to improve public health surveillance (1). The Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health Act and Meaningful Use criteria for… read more -
Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality
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Health care processes consume increasing volumes of digital data. However, creating and leveraging high quality integrated health data is challenging because large-scale health data derives from systems where data is captured from varying workflows… read more