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The Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact
Content Type: Report
Released October 2017. Prepared by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Health Matters Initiative. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXCERPT While prescription opioids serve an invaluable role for the… read morePreparing Disease Surveillance Systems for ICD10
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The compliance date for the ICD9-ICD10 transition is October 1, 2015. The hospitals have started the ICD9-ICD10 transition. However, not all data providers will transition the data at the same time. In order to facilitate some coherence to the data… read morePreparing for ILINet 2.0
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A Neolithic transformation is underway in public health, where the ubiquity of digital healthcare (HC) data is changing public health’s traditional role as data hunter-gatherers to one of data farmers harvesting huge reserves of electronic data.… read morePreparing for State Health Department Accreditation: Pivotal Roles for Public Health Surveillance
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On January 24, 2014, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) released, to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department accreditation. Specifically, Standard 1.2 of the guidance… read morePreparing for the Impact of the ICD-9/10 Transition on Syndromic Surveillance
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The US Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that after October 1, 2015, all HIPAA covered entities must transition from using International Classification of Diseases version 9 (ICD- 9) codes to using version 10 (ICD-10) codes (www.… read moreProtecting Australia from Future Polio Outbreaks
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The occurrence of global polio is at its lowest level, yet the goal of eradication remains elusive with the ongoing circulation in the three remaining endemic countries. Developed countries have a low index of suspicion for polio – relying on astute… read moreUsing R Shiny to Share Surveillance Data
Content Type: Webinar
Presented November 21, 2017. This presentation covers how the shiny package can complement traditional surveillance reporting through online, interactive applications. Kelley demonstrates a shiny application Cook County is currently… read moreModeling Spatial Heterogeneity with Excess Zeroes from School Absenteeism dSata
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Absenteeism has been considered as a potential indicator for the early detection of infectious disease outbreaks in population, especially in primary schools. However, in practice this data are often characterized by an excess of zeros and spatial… read more