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  • Using a real time syndromic surveillance system to track heat related illnesses during a heat wave

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    In 2004, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD), which serves a county population over 890,000, began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … illness during the July 2011 Heat Wave in Indianapolis. Document … Plan. http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPS/DHS/Preparedness/ Documents/Appendix%20G-Heat%20Cold%20Plan%202009- …
  • Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor

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    With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more
    … of parsing visit notes for syndromic surveillance. Document … and a semantic grammar to parse and encode medical documents. MedLEE creates a finding (e.g., fever) and … L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing. J Am Med …
  • Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance

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    We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more
    … component in a system performing real-time surveillance. Document … examining sentences causing the errors in separate text documents. We are building a framework to simplify results … a lexicon-building tool to mine synonyms from clinical documents and the UMLS Metathesaurus. Conclusions …
  • Some Interactive Data Exploration Tools for Syndromic Surveillance

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    This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.
    … data exploration tools for examining surveillance data. Document … /Description << /ENU (Use these settings to create PDF documents with higher image resolution for high quality pre-press printing. The PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Reader 5.0 and …
  • Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks

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    HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more
    … means extending prior knowledge encoded in a gazetteer. Document … C. 1994. Gipsy: Automated geographic indexing of text documents. Journal of the American Society for Information …
  • Automatically tracking diabetes using information in physicians’ notes

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    Patient consultations recorded as voice dictations are frequently stored electronically as transcriptions in free text format. The information stored in free text is not computer tractable. Advances in artificial intelligence permit the… read more
    … and stores it in a structured format in a MYSQL database. Document … solutions developed for this project can be applied to documents from other institutions and to other diseases. It …
  • Using AFDL Algorithm to Estimate Risk of Positive Outcomes of Microbial Tests at Food Establishments

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    One of the common tasks faced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food safety analysts is to estimate the risk of observing positive outcomes of microbial tests of food samples collected at the slaughter and food… read more
    … samples collected at the USDA controlled establishments. Document … /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents for quality printing on desktop printers and proofers. Created PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 …
  • Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System

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    Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more
    … which can be used to develop future system enhancements.  Document … on system usage patterns during simulated exercises and documenta- tion of investigation practices observed during …