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2016 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference New Frontiers in Surveillance: Data Science and Health Security
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) held its fifteenth annual conference in Atlanta, GA, from December 6-8, 2016. Since 2001, individuals interested in sharing and learning emerging trends in surveillance research and practice… read moreESSENCE Training: Building Queries
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This presentation will focus on how to build ad-hoc queries in ESSENCE. In addition to teaching the basic mechanics of building queries, the presentation will explore advanced techniques for building complex queries to find specific case… read moreCategory-Specific Comparison of Univariate Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance Decision Support
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Temporal alerting algorithms commonly used in syndromic surveillance systems are often adjusted for data features such as cyclic behavior but are subject to overfitting or misspecification errors when applied indiscriminately. In a project for the… read moreChallenges and Opportunities in Routine Time Series Analysis of Surveillance Data
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ECDC long term strategies for surveillance include analysis of trends of communicable disease of public health importance for European Union countries to guide public health actions. The European Surveillance System (TESSy) holds data on 49… read morePotential use of multiple surveillance data in the forecast of hospital admissions
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A sudden surge in hospital admissions in public hospital during influenza peak season has been a challenge to healthcare and manpower planning. In Hong Kong, the timing of influenza peak seasons are variable and early short-term indication of… read moreProcessing of Novel Electronic Health Data to Support Public Health Surveillance
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Accurately gauging the health status of a population during an event of public health significance (e.g. hurricanes, H1N1 2009 pandemic) in support of emergency response and situation awareness efforts can be a challenge for established public… read morePublic Health Surveillance in Pilot Drinking Water Contamination Warning Systems
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designed a program to pilot multi-component contamination warning systems (CWSs), known as the “Water Security initiative (WSi).” The Cincinnati pilot has been fully operational since January 2008, and… read moreRaccoons in San Diego County as Sentinels for West Nile Virus Surveillance
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Since its detection in 1999 in New York, WNV spread westward across the continent, and was first detected in California in 2003 in Imperial County. In California and in many states, birds, especially corvids, are used as sentinel animals to detect… read more