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  • Modeling Disease Surveillance and Assessing its Effectiveness for Detection of Acute Respiratory Outbreaks in Resource-Limited Settings

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    A U.S. Department of Defense program is underway to assess health surveillance in resource-poor settings and to evaluate the Early Warning Outbreak Reporting System. This program has included several information-gathering trips,… read more
    … 2006.   Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … System Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing … 2006.   Objective This modeling effort will provide guidance for policy and planning decisions in developing …
  • Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP

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    Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more
    … being customized to identify symptoms within VA clinical documents, and then refined to assign duration. The … symptoms and the aggregation of this information across documents by patient’s is not addressed here. Objective … currently in development to find duration assertions. Document …
  • Zika Pregnancy Surveillance: Transforming Data into Educational and Clinical Tools

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    Little was known about the maternal and fetal/infant effects of Zika infection before the 2015 outbreak in the Americas, which made it challenging for public health practitioners and clinicians to care for pregnant women and infants exposed to Zika… read more
    … during pregnancy and inform the CDC response and clinical guidance. In partnership with state, tribal, local, and … (Zika) surveillance data informs and improves testing guidance, clinical evaluation and management of pregnant … during pregnancy and inform the CDC response and clinical guidance. In partnership with state, tribal, local, and …
  • Framework for the Development of Response Protocols for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    Although syndromic surveillance cannot serve its intended purpose without the timely public health response launched after aberration detection, the literature is very limited with respect to response to syndromic surveillance… read more
    … to syndromic surveillance systems alerts and related guidance for public health practitioners. Literature reviews … to syndromic surveillance systems alerts and related guidance for public health practitioners [1, 2]. Litera- … to syndromic surveillance systems alerts and related guidance for public health practitioners. Literature reviews …
  • From Ebola to Heroin; the Use of EMS Data for Near Real Time Alerting and Surviellance

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    Arguably the two most significant public health issues over the past two years have been the outbreak of ebola in West Africa and the rising epidemic of heroin use and overdoses. In the case of Ebola, the CDC issued guidance for inpatient facilities… read more
    … use and overdoses. In the case of Ebola, the CDC issued guidance for inpatient facilities to screen for potential cases, however, there was little guidance for screening patients that presented to EMS … use and overdoses. In the case of Ebola, the CDC issued guidance for inpatient facilities to screen for potential …
  • Adaptation of GUARDIAN for Syndromic Surveillance During the NATO Summit

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    Special event driven syndromic surveillance is often initiated by public health departments with limited time for development of an automated surveillance framework, which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss… read more
    … for special event surveillance using GUARDIAN, as well as document lessons learned postevent regarding design … for special event surveillance using GUARDIAN, as well as document lessons learned postevent regarding design …
  • 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
    … Early identification of these factors from clinical documents may help detect or even predict homelessness … and risk factors for homelessness found in VA clinical documents. This domain knowledge can be used to support … _Detection_And_Prediction_Of_Homelessness_From_Va_Clinical_Documents.pdf Submitted by Magou on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 14:53 …
  • Streamling Syndromic Surveillance Submission on a Dime: Oregon’s Experience

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    In 2012, the Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD) took advantage of the opportunity created by Meaningful Use, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Incentive Program, to implement statewide syndromic surveillance. The Oregon… read more
    … ESSENCE streamlined the onboarding process by creating guidance for HL7 message construction, message testing and … process details (collectively referred to as “onboarding documents”). Oregon ESSENCE also built a project management … ESSENCE streamlined the onboarding process by creating guidance for HL7 message construction, message testing and …