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Online Dissemination of National Influenza Surveillance Data
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Infectious disease surveillance is important for disease control as well as to inform prevention and treatment [1]. While influenza surveillance data coverage and quality has improved significantly in recent years due to resource investments and… read more -
Pregnant women with suspected Zika virus infection: A claims data analysis
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Zika virus disease and Zika virus congenital infection are nationally notifiable conditions that became prominent recently as a growing number of travel-associated infections have been identified in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control… read more -
Online Temporal Clustering for Outbreak Detection
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We hypothesize that epidemics around their onset tend to affect primarily a well-defined subgroup of the overall population that is for some reason particularly susceptible. While the vulnerable cohort is often well described for… read more -
Ontario's Telehealth: A Novel Snydromic Surveillance System
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The Ontario Telehealth Telephone Helpline (henceforth referred to as “Telehealth”) was implemented in Ontario in 2001. It is administered by Clinidata, a private contractor hired by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care,… read more -
Ontology of a Cyberenvironment for Malaria Surveillance
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Malaria control programs suffer from weak and fragmented surveillance of the wide range of information required to manage the disease effectively and efficiently. A computational framework to manage, integrate, analyze, and visualize… read more -
Ontology-Based Automatic Chief Complaints Classification for Syndromic Surveillance
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Free-text emergency department triage chief complaints (CCs) are a popular data source used by many syndromic surveillance systems because of their timeliness, availability, and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major… read more -
Open Source Development of Syndromic Investigation Decision Support Tools
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Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS), a syndromic surveillance system created by the University of Pittsburgh has been used in Ohio by the state and local health departments since late 2003. There are currently 133… read more -
Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System
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In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more