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Using influenza rapid test positivity as an early indicator for the onset of seasonal influenza
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Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, with attendant costs of roughly $10 billion for treatment and up to $77 billion in indirect costs annually. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts annual… read moreUsing laboratory and medical encounter records to identify impact of prophylaxis policies on group A Streptococcus in three recruit training facilities
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Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant morbidity and, on occasion, has been linked to deaths. Streptococcal surveillance has long been a… read moreStandardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read moreSyndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness using automated VA data preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network
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Current influenza-like illness monitoring in Idaho is on the basis of syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary reporting.… read moreThe evaluation of influenza surveillance data elements for the health information exchange minimum data set
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The American Health Information Community Harmonized Use Case for the Biosurveillance minimum data set (MDS) was implemented to establish data exchange between regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and the New York State Department of… read moreMitigating data collection challenges with adaptive frameworks
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Electronic disease surveillance systems can be extremely valuable tools; however, a critical step in system implementation is collection of data. Without accurate and complete data, statistical anomalies that are detected hold little meaning. Many… read moreSurveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?
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A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read moreThe United States Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center (VA IOC): collaborations for surveillance, analysis, and prediction for infectious disease threat preparedness—pilot review of dengue occurrence
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Under leadership of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness has established the Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center, with the goal of enhancing integration and analysis of data, and… read more