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2015 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference Harnessing Data to Advance Health Equity
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) will hold its fourteenth annual conference in Denver, CO on December 10th and 11th, 2015. The society's mission is to improve population health by advancing the science and practice of… read moreThe Cost of Obfuscation When Reporting Locations of Cases in Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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In a classical surveillance system one looks for disturbances in the number of cases, but in a spatio-temporal system, not only the number of cases observed but also where they are located is reported. What location is reported, and to which degree… read moreThe Day-of-the-Week Effect: A Study Across the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System
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Complex, highly parameterized data models are often used to detect syndromic outbreaks. Unfortunately, such models can pose greater maintenance challenges as parameter variations increase. As such, our work focuses on whether day… read moreThe Development of BTA-Specific Disease Profiles for Use in a Real-Time Disease Identification and Notification System
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Real-time disease surveillance is critical for early detection of the covert release of a biological threat agent (BTA). Numerous software applications have been developed to detect emerging disease clusters resulting from either naturally occurring… read moreThe Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises
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On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read moreThe Electronic Support for Public Health (ESP) Project: Automated Detection and Electronic Reporting of Notifiable Diseases
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Clinician reporting of notifiable diseases has historically been slow, labor intensive, and incomplete. Manual and electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) systems have increased the timeliness, efficiency, and completeness of… read moreThe Impact of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees from Louisiana and Mississippi on Georgia Emergency Departments: Syndromic Surveillane and Disasters
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall just east of New Orleans, LA at 6:10AM CST and again at the LA/MS border at 10:00AM CST as a Category 3 hurricane, causing mass destruction along their coastlines. The devastation in LA and MS… read moreThe New Real Time Surveillance System within the French Forces in French Guiana
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The development of a real time surveillance system for Forces on duty areas is one of the 5 initiatives of the November 2002 Prague’s NATO meeting. The French Military Health Service has decided to implement a military demonstrator within Forces in… read more