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Challenges of introducing disease surveillance technology in developing countries: experiences from India and Sri Lanka
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Modern information and communication technologies have increasingly prominent roles in health care systems. To capitalize on attainable benefits, it is essential to thoroughly and purposefully weave them into the existing business … read more -
Characterization of communicable disease epidemics using bayesian inversion
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The evolution of a communicable disease in a human population is not entirely predictable. However, the spreading process can be assumed to vary smoothly in time. The time-dependent infection process can be linked to observations of… read more -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Influenza messaging and interoperability: the PHLIP assistance team approach
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An essential theme of the US Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan is interoperability and the ability to effectively exchange information using specific data and technical standards.1 In 2005, in an effort to accelerate the… read more -
A Voronoi based scan for space-time cluster detection in point event data
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Scan statistics are highly successful for the evaluation of space-time clusters. Recently, concepts from the graph theory were applied to evaluate the set of potential clusters. Wieland et al. introduced a graph theoretical… read more -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more