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Use of Google Earth to Facilitate GIS-Based Decision Support Systems for Arthropod-Borne Diseases
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Arthropod-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, Chagas disease, filariasis, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis place tremendous public health burdens upon developing countries. The operational value of Decision Support Systems for… read moreUse of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community
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Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which… read moreDetection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data
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Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read moreDiagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics
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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read moreDisease Surveillance Systems for Sensitive Population Groups
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Disease surveillance systems are currently used for the early detection of disease outbreak before diagnosis is confirmed in order to mobilize a rapid response . The fear of epidemics or bioterrorism resulted in the development of systems for the… read moreDistributed Multi-agent Architecture for Decision Support in Public Health Networks
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One of the significant challenges that multi-user biosurveillance systems have is alarm management. Currently deployed syndromic surveillance systems [1â3] have a single user interface. However, different users have different objectives; the… read moreEnhanced Surveillance Improved Timeliness and Sensitivity at the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany
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Security threats and the recent emergence of avian influenza in Europe have heightened the profile of and need for a good surveillance strategy during such events. The two main rationales for enhanced infectious disease surveillance at mass events… read moreEvaluating Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and Response Systems in Developing Countries: Framework and Pilot Application
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A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid… read more