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  • Identification of features for detection and prediction of homelessness from VA clinical documents

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    Homelessness in general is a major issue in the US today. The risk factors of homelessness are myriad, including inadequate income, lack of affordable housing, mental health and substance abuse issues, lack of social support, and nonadherence to… read more
    … documents. This domain knowledge can be used to support training and evaluation of automated methods such as Natural … documents. This domain knowledge can be used to support training and evaluation of automated methods such as Natural … documents. This domain knowledge can be used to support training and evaluation of automated methods such as Natural …
  • Support Vector Machines for Syndromic Surveillance

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    Early and reliable detection of anomalies is a critical challenge in disease surveillance. Most surveillance systems collect data from multiple data streams but the majority of monitoring is performed at univariate time series… read more
    … The methodology and initial results obtained on ESSENCE data are presented. Document … to the algorithm [2] that requires only positive training examples, in our case - the normal (no outbreak) …
  • SAGES Update: Electronic Disease Surveillance in Resource-Limited Settings

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    The new 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), a legally binding instrument for all 194 WHO member countries, significantly expanded the scope of reportable conditions and are intended to help prevent and respond to global public health… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE collects, processes, and analyzes … leverages the experience gained in the development of ESSENCE, and the analysis and visualization components of …
  • Identifying a Meningitis Case through Syndromic Surveillance: An Example of Detecting Events of Public Health Importance and Improving Situational Awareness

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    The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data for situational awareness.
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data … the Early Notifi- cation of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data …
  • Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism for Multi- Center Capacity Building Gestational Diabetes Program for Physicians in India

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    International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates that 21.4 million women in 2013 had some form of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy and in India alone an estimated 4 million women have GDM. Recognizing the shortfall of trained manpower; Certificate… read more
    … spread across 17 states and 39 cities across 55 regional training centers and trained 2400 Primary care physicians … spread across 17 states and 39 cities across 55 regional training centers and trained 2400 Primary care physicians …
  • Linking Emergency Medical Service Data to Death Records for Opioid Mortality Surveillance

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    Opioid abuse has increased exponentially in recent years throughout the United States, leading to an increase in the incidence of emergency response activities, hospitalization, and mortality related to opioid overdose. As a result, states that have… read more
    … and acute treatment, first responder and hospital staff training, cross-agency collaboration, and Incident … and acute treatment, first responder and hospital staff training, cross-agency collaboration, and Incident …
  • Development of an Introductory Continuing Medical Education Program for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians in Syndromic Surveillance

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    58 medical licensure boards require between 12 and 50 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) for re-licensure of physicians. 28 states as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Mariana Islands, require… read more
    … available for CME or CNE.   Objective The Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease … Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand Objective: The Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

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    One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a … outbreaks were detected by epidemiologists inspecting ESSENCE time series and derived event lists. The …