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  • Gossamer Health: A meaningful, open-source approach to shared surveillance software

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    Cost-effective, flexible and innovative tools that integrate disparate data sets and allow sharing of information between geographically dispersed collaborators are needed to improve public health surveillance practice. Gossamer Health (Good Open… read more
    … on summarized clinical data, such as the influenza and visit counts used in the Distribute project (1), (2) methods …
  • Opportunistic approaches to evaluation of surveillance efforts in resource-limited countries

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    The Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) delivers interventions to enhance surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union… read more
    … produce a check list that they can use the next time they visit farms. Results Collection of data at the training …
  • 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
    … -0 7- 20 11 27 -0 7- 20 11 Date of Emergency Department Visit C o u n t o f P at ie n ts Fig. 1. Heat-Related Chief …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Bicycle Related Injuries in Boston, 2007-2010

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    In May of 2001, Boston released a strategic transportation plan to improve bicycle access and safety. [1] According to the Boston Transportation Department, ridership has increased 122% between 2007 and 2009. [2] A collaborative public health and… read more
    … hospitals in Boston every 24 hours. Data received include visit date, demographics, ZIP code of residence, chief …
  • Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations

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    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics to detect disease outbreaks and other health-related events earlier than other forms of surveillance. Although… read more
    … by ICD-9 code and chart review), date and location of visit and patients’ zip code of residence. We also accessed …
  • Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?

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     Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more
    … of an outbreak (23). Near the end of a patient’s visit to a healthcare facility, detailed information about … approxi- mately 40,000 adult patients a year, and patient visit data have been stored in the Medical Archival System …
  • Automatic and Secure Data Transfer of Syndromic Data between Hospitals and Public Health Using the PHINMS

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    The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Messaging Service (PHINMS) is a PHIN-certified messaging system, initiated and supported by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. PHINMS is widely used by many… read more
    … DHEC sends hospital specific data and sum- mary reports back to hospitals automatically via our Auto Send program, … has proved successful. Issues associated with sending back data to hospitals through PHINMS will be addressed. … issues with delivering hospital-specific syndromic data back to the hospital through the PHINMS. PHINMS has shown …
  • 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.
    … syndromic data and summary reports will be delivered back to the hospitals via the same dedicated Public Health … office staff. Hospital-specific informa- tion was sent back daily to each hospital and their infection control … Manuals on maintaining the system and completing follow-up investigations were written and trainings for both …