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  • Using cKASS to facilitate knowledge authoring and sharing for syndromic surveillance

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    Mining text for real-time syndromic surveillance usually requires a comprehensive knowledge base (KB) which contains detailed information about concepts relevant to the domain, such as disease names, symptoms, drugs, and radiology findings. Two such… read more
    … resources that can be applied to syndromic surveillance. Document … ontology. In: Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI), Bled, …
  • Use of syndromic surveillance in decision making during the H1N1 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

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    For public health surveillance to achieve its desired purpose of reducing morbidity and mortality, surveillance data must be linked to public health response. While there is evidence of the growing popularity of syndromic surveillance (1,2), the… read more
    … rather vaccine availability and ministerial guidance acted as drivers for these decisions. Conclusions …
  • Monitoring and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data to ensure data completeness

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    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the… read more
    … and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data. Document … involved with the program have been able to monitor and document that over 99% of all possible data are incorporated …
  • Utilization of Syndromic Surveillance with Multiple Data Sources to Enhance Public Health Response

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    In the event of a large-scale public health crisis, successfully detecting and assessing health threats and monitoring population health status over a sustained period of time is likely to require integration of information from multiple… read more
    … source of information used to provide health protection guidance to the public was air quality data, not human … /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. …
  • Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System

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    When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more
    … identification software module which we named “Dr. T” (Document Reviewing Tool). The module uses a combination of …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

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    Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more
    … system to generate and validate BTA profiles. Document … actions during the course of the disaster, as well as document potential areas for future mitigation efforts. … side effects are more difficult to characterize and document. Drugs with a high risk of harm outweighing the …
  • Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities

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    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … published by the CDC (10, 11). It was designed under guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health …
  • Data and Text Mining in Analysis of the Emergence of H5N1 Virus Strain

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    OBJECTIVE This paper describes a series of data mining techniques used to gather and analyze and disseminate large amounts of data from numerous sources in English as well as Chinese. The objective of the analysis is to attempt to identify locations… read more
    … simplified Chinese into English. The translated Chinese documents are then made available to a categorization … This process automates the tedious process of organizing documents into logical categories. In this example, our …