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  • Development of Genomic Surveillance Bioinformatics Modules

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    Whole-genome sequencing of disease-causing organisms provides an unabridged examination of the genetic content of individual pathogen isolates, enabling public health laboratories to benefit from comparative analyses of total genetic content.… read more
    … To this end we have created a modular genomics analysis toolkit that can easily integrate diverse data streams and … To this end we have created a modular genomics analysis toolkit that can easily integrate diverse data streams and …
  • Ebola, Enterovirus, MERS, Novel Flu, and other Challenges for Public Health Surveillance Practitioners

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    Public health practitioners endeavor to expand and refine their syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems that are designed to supplement their existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and… read more
    … existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread … existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread …
  • Using SAGES OpenESSENCE for Mass Gathering Events

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    The SAGES (Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance) team at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was approached by the Public Health Division of the Research, Evidence and Information Programme of the Secretariat of… read more
    … the feasibility of using the SAGES disease surveillance toolkit for two mass gathering events, the 8th Micronesian … the feasibility of using the SAGES disease surveillance toolkit for two mass gathering events, the 8th Micronesian …
  • Cloud Computing for Syndromic Surveillance

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    Two significant barriers to greater use of syndromic surveillance techniques are computational time and software complexity. Computational time refers to the time for many methods (for example, scan statistics and AMOEBA statistics) to create… read more
    … machines, or images, for the public to use. The GeoViz Toolkit was one of the software packages delivered in this … implied. References 1. Hardisty F, Robinson A. The GeoViz Toolkit: using component- oriented coordination methods to … (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. The GeoViz Toolkit is shown with multiple views of rates of ILI. The …
  • Placing surveillance in a preparedness business process framework

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    Most public health workers could reach agreement on the general functions and operations regarding public health’s traditional operations, such as food safety inspections, outbreak investigations, or immunization clinics. However, there is much less… read more
    … N. PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza: A Quality Improvement Toolkit; RAND Health; 2008:217. Preparedness business …
  • The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks

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    In 2004, the NSW Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System operating in and around Sydney, Australia signalled a large-scale increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI). A subsequent… read more
    … surveillance to the routine public health surveillance toolkit. The proportion of outbreaks with a known organism …
  • Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption

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    To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more
    … be a valuable addition to the public health surveillance toolkit and has been recognized provincially and …
  • Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters

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    Computational and statistical methods for detecting disease clusters, such as the spatial scan statistic, have become frequently used tools in epidemiology. However, they simply tell the user where a cluster is, and leave the… read more
    … 26, pp. 1481-1496, 1997. [2] [2] F. Hardisty, "The GeoViz Toolkit," in Auto-Carto, Las Vegas, NV, 2005. [3] [3] S. …