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  • Design and development of a standards-based model to publish public health reporting criteria

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    State laws mandate clinicians and laboratories to report occurrences of reportable diseases to public health entities. For this purpose, a set of case-reporting specifications are published and maintained by public health departments… read more
    … to inform reporting facilities ‘what’s reportable where’. Document … existing HL7-structured documents including the Clinical Document Architecture. The knowledge management system …
  • Electronic case reporting of STIs: Are non-existent codes the reason for missing information?

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    Under the CDC STD Surveillance Network (SSuN) Part B grant, WA DOH is testing eICR of sexually transmitted infections (STI) with a clinical partner. Existing standard vocabulary codes were identified to represent previously-identified information… read more
    … case reporting (eICR) relying on Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs) exported from our clinical partner’s … case reporting (eICR) relying on Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs) exported from our clinical partner’s …
  • The Biosurveillance Resource Directory - A One-Stop Shop for Systems, Sources, and Tools

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    Local, national, and global infectious disease surveillance systems have been implemented to meet the demands of monitoring, detecting, and reporting disease outbreaks and prevalence. Varying surveillance goals and geographic reach have led to… read more
    … from websites, peer-reviewed literature, government documents, and subject-matter expert consultations. … from websites, peer-reviewed literature, government documents, and subject-matter expert consultations. …
  • Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more
    … efficiency of sharing syndromic information statewide. Document … reports in NC DETECT allow epidemi- ologists to document the follow-up conducted on syndrome-based … as laboratory data. New interfaces will allow users to document lab results about respiratory illnesses, in- …
  • Automatic Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) New Monitoring and Classification

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    Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of farm animals. There is a critical need for countries to have a global FMD situational awareness. Monitoring the online news sources for FMD-related news… read more
    … at the University of Arizona and the FMD Lab at UC Davis. Document … medical domain. Pant created a topical spider to get a document collection which can help to locate relevant … filters out the FMD news from the large collection of documents retrieved by our spiders. Then the news articles …
  • Surveillance System Evaluations Provide Evidence to Improve Public Health Practice

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    A simplified syndromic surveillance system, based on early detection and reporting of four core syndromes and immediate reporting of unusual events, was established across PICTs in 2010. An early evaluation of the system was undertaken to make… read more
    … to improve public health practice. This presentation documents how knowledge gathered through a syndromic … to improve public health practice. This presentation documents how knowledge gathered through a syndromic …
  • A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    This abstract describes a suite of software utilities that have been developed for systematically evaluating the detection performance and robustness of univariate temporal alerting algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems.
    … algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems. Document … strengths and weaknesses prior to implementation. [This document was prepared under a grant from the Office of State … Security. Points of view or opinions ex- pressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in the State of Florida

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    Syndromic Surveillance utilizes health-related symptom data to monitor disease outbreaks. Its’ potential for prompt detection of disease outbreaks and strengthening of rapid public health response is anticipated. As a result, syndromic surveillance… read more
    … inter- connection are identified. Lack of standards and guidance is a major concern. CONCLUSIONS There are urgent … of, sustainability and continued funding for, technical guidance for further improvement and local operation of …