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A Closer Look at Developing a Statewide Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural State
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This paper describes the issues associated with the creation of a statewide emergency department syndromic surveillance system, part of the South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN), in a predominately rural state.… using EARS-SAS3, and provide results using an automatic email notification. Summary results and actual syndrome … -
Using UMLS Semantic Network to Identify Search Terms for Biosurveillance
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The variability of free text emergency department (ED) data is problematic for biosurveillance, and current methods of identifying search terms for symptoms of interest are inefficient as well as time- and labor-intensive. Our ad… read more… Further In- formation: Debbie Travers, dtravers@email.unc.edu Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:69 … -
The Utility of Biosurveillance for Public Health Practice: The Findings from Two Case Studies
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States and localities are using biosurveillance for a variety purposes including event detection, situational awareness, and response. However, little is known about the impact of biosurveillance on the operational components… read more… and Tarrant County, Texas Advance Practice Center. Site visits were conducted to each of these cases in July, 2007 … -
Integrating Early Event Detection into Local Disease Surveillance and Response
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This poster describes the practical integration of Early Event Detection (EED) into the daily operation of a medium sized public health department to improve surveillance for, and response to, outbreaks of communicable disease.… processed into a Postgres database. A daily e-mail summary of aberrations is automatically generated and … -
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… of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada E-mail: rbhatia@ottawaheart.ca Objective This paper describes … -
HAIISS Data Warehouse (HDW)FA new data access architecture for ESSENCE in the VA
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The data elements required for the proper functionality of VA’s ESSENCE system are all currently available within VA’s 128 VistA systems. These data are made available to VA’s ESSENCE system via a series of complicated MUMPS extraction routines,… read more… University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA E-mail: anoshiravan.moshtaghimi@va.gov Objective To describe … -
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… USA; and 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: shuying.shen@hsc.utah.edu Objectives We demonstrate a … -
Implementing an outbreak/event tracking monitor for public health
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Utah has a centralized State Health Department and 12 Local Health Departments situated throughout the state. Coordination of outbreaks or events that crosses jurisdictions has been historically difficult. Utah has not had a functional NEDSS-… read more… University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: smottice@utah.gov Objective The aim of this project …