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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. … -
User Interface Design for a Biosurveillance System
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INDICATOR provides an open source platform for biosurveillance and outbreak detection. Data sources currently include emergency department, patient advisory nurse, outpatient clinic, and school absence activity We are currently working with the… read more… and flulike illness (Fig. 1). The team chose Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a well- supported open source software … -
A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice
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Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more… Practice*A Biosur- veillance Resource Compendium is a CD toolkit intended to help public health agencies implement an … -
Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… 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 … The spatiotemporal clustering algorithms in the GeoViz Toolkit, as well as the multiple view visualizations, are …