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Fast subset scan for multivariate spatial biosurveillance
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The spatial scan statistic detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic over a large set of spatial regions. Several recent approaches have extended spatial scan to multiple data streams. Burkom… read more… Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: neill@cs.cmu.edu Objective We extend the recently … -
Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources
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Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more… Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia, MD, USA E-mail: Aaron_Kite-Powell@doh.state.fl.us Objective Use of the … -
Enhancement of ESSENCE-based chemical surveillance by incorporation of real-time poison information center data
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Florida Department of Health has developed a statewide syndromic surveillance system based on the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Authorized users can currently access… read more… Public Health Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA E-mail: Prakash_Mulay@doh.state.fl.us Introduction Florida … -
PHIN-MS deployment acceptability survey for the data transfer of syndromic data between hospitals and public health
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PHIN-MS can send and receive data securely and automatically. It is used by many hospitals in the state(s) to send data to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) for both our National Electronic Disease… read more… and Environmental Control (SC DHEC), Columbia, SC, USA E-mail: chengye@dhec.sc.gov Objective The objective of this … -
Real-time surveillance of influenza/pneumonia deaths: new strategies using grid computing and natural language processing
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Surveillance of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia using death records has the potential to be a relatively inexpensive and quick approach to tracking and detecting influenza and respiratory illness outbreaks; however, presently such a system… read more… and 3Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: kailah.davis@utah.edu Objective This poster presents … -
Exploring illness prediction in type 1 diabetes mellitus pre-symptom onset
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Illnesses like infections, cold, influenza and so on in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients, can compromise the daily patient administered diabetes treatment. This in turn may result in fluctuating blood glucose concentrations,… read more… and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark E-mail: jonas@fauerbylauritzen.dk Objective To develop an … -
Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals
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The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system… read more… Security Division/Office of Water, Cincinnati, OH, USA E-mail: ahaas2@csc.com Objective To develop standard operating … -
Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals
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The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system (CWS) detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system. The… read more… Security Division/Office of Water, Cincinnati, OH, USA E-mail: ahaas2@csc.com Objective To develop standard operating …