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Enhancing Nebraska's Rabies Surveillance using Electronic Public Health Cases Reports and ESSENCE
Content Type: Case Study
Accurate and timely reporting of animal rabies test results and potential human exposures is necessary to guide case management and define rabies epidemiology. Accordingly, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) collaborated with… read more… Prior to 2013, authorized tests were requisitioned via phone calls to NDHHS from persons submitting specimens. … Prior to 2013, authorized tests were requisitioned via phone calls to NDHHS from persons submitting specimens. … exposure-related data captured during test requisition phone calls were subsequently entered (manually) by NDHHS … -
Enhanced Animal Surveillance for Super Bowl XLIX in Maricopa County, Arizona, 2015
Content Type: Case Study
From December 2014 to February 2015, Maricopa County, Arizona was the host site for several high profile events, including Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. Public health officials were allocated with implementing numerous enhanced surveillance… read more… Bowl through email updates, teleconferences and daily phone calls. Ayala Aurimar Levy Craig no Public View the … Bowl through email updates, teleconferences and daily phone calls. ACTION TAKEN (500 word maximum) Describe how … connected through emails, teleconferences and bi-daily phone calls/check-ins which occurred during the days before, … -
Potential elimination of rabies from Pemba Island, Tanzania
Content Type: Case Study
A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies control program is currently in use across southern Tanzania and was implemented in Pemba since 2011. The system allows for near real-time reporting of information on: patients with… read more… A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies … of the collaborators and the data sources used. A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies … A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies … -
Georgia's Choice: Moving One Health Forward
Content Type: Case Study
Anthrax is endemic and enzootic in Georgia with cases being registered since 1881 with over 2000 foci identified. Since 2005, 439 laboratory confirmed and 211 probable human cases and 190 laboratory confirmed animal cases have been registered. A… read more… Once a case is confirmed, direct communication via phone call occurs between NFA and NCDC investigators. In … Once a case is confirmed, direct communication via phone call occurs between NFA and NCDC investigators. In … Once a case is confirmed, direct communication via phone call occurs between NFA and NCDC investigators. In … -
Better, Stronger, Faster: Making the Case for Adding Data Fields to Syndromic Surveillance, NJ 2015
Content Type: Case Study
NJDOH created a custom classification in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the keywords black magic, black mamba, cloud 9, cloud 10,incense, k2, legal high, pot potpourri,… read more… in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the … classification for NJ synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits before NJPIES' inquiry. NJDOH staff successfully … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the … -
MBDS One Health Digital Disease Surveillance Application
Content Type: Case Study
The past decade has seen the rise of many new diseases, and the re-emergence of others which were thought to have been brought under control. This is the combined result of the expansion of global trade and travel, the increases in populations of… read more… with Bioterrorism and/or pandemic potential. Mobile Phone application development is adapted on SMS based alert … gateway” mini-client that allows you to plug a local cell phone into your laptop, connect to the Internet, and allow …