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  • A Health Department's Collaborate Model for Disease Surveillance Capacity Building

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    Public Health departments are increasingly called upon to be innovative in quality service delivery under a dwindling resource climate as highlighted in several publications of the Institute of Medicine. Collaboration with other entities in the… read more
    … collaborative opportunities for capacity development and document the implications for chronic disease surveillance … collaborative opportunities for capacity development and document the implications for chronic disease surveillance …
  • Assessing the Potential Impact of the BioSense 24-hour Rule Using NC DETECT ED Data

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    Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of HL7 records received in BioSense do not provide a Visit ID. As a result, BioSense data processing rules use the patient ID, facility ID and earliest date in… read more
    … Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of … 09/28/2017 - 09:21 … Per a frequently asked questions document on the ISDS website, approximately two thirds of …
  • Automated Collection of Electronic Health Record Healthy Weight Data for Surveillance

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    Clinical data captured in electronic health records (EHR) for patient health care could be used for chronic disease surveillance, helping to inform and prioritize interventions at a state or community level. While there has been significant progress… read more
    … public health concern. Both HL7 v.2.5.12 and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) messages3 can be used to … public health concern. Both HL7 v.2.5.12 and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) messages3 can be used to …
  • Environmental Public Health Tracking: Success Stories from a Collaborative Surveillance System

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    Understanding how exposure to hazards in our environment (air, water, food and surroundings) affects our health is critical to understanding causes of many chronic and acute diseases and to planning and implementing appropriate response and… read more
    … between these factors. The program funds and provides guidance to 24 state and local health departments to develop … between these factors. The program funds and provides guidance to 24 state and local health departments to develop …
  • Implementation of a Syndromic Surveillance Pilot Program in Selected Cattle Markets in Texas, USA

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    Syndromic surveillance of livestock animals at points of concentration, such as livestock markets, has the potential to provide early detection of endemic, zoonotic, transboundary, environmental, and newly emerging animal diseases and to identify… read more
    … animals for clinical signs of disease, but do not usually document the number of cattle or clinical signs observed. … animals for clinical signs of disease, but do not usually document the number of cattle or clinical signs observed. …
  • Check! Explore barriers and solutions to data sharing to BioSense 2.0

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    The benefits of inter-jurisdictional data sharing have been touted as a hallmark of BioSense 2.0, a cloud-based computing platform for syndromic surveillance. A key feature of the BioSense 2.0 platform is the ability to share data across… read more
    … however, we intend for the feedback captured in this document to lead to improvements in the BioSense 2.0 … $ 1. A$user$guide$that$provides$practical$guidance$for$using$BioSense$in$practice$ …
  • Evaluating the application and utility of ESSENCE for early event detection

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    In spite of the noted benefits of syndromic surveillance, and more than a decade after it started gaining support, the primary use for syndromic surveillance appears to be largely for seasonal and jurisdictional disease monitoring, event response… read more
    … outbreaks. This research will provide stakeholders with guidance on how best to implement and improve ESSENCE usage … outbreaks. This research will provide stakeholders with guidance on how best to implement and improve ESSENCE usage …
  • Openness, Transparency and Equity in Public Health Surveillance Data Sharing

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    The outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, influenza A (H1N1) in 2009 and Ebola in 2014 have shown increasingly that infectious diseases can spread globally in a short timeframe, affecting both high- and low-income countries… read more
    … on Global Health Security at Chatham House is producing guidance that will address both the policy and technical … on Global Health Security at Chatham House is producing guidance that will address both the policy and technical …