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Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use
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In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read moreBiosense and Violence: Progress Toward Violence Prevention Using Syndromic Surveillance
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Violence is now clearly recognized as a public health problem. Intentional injuries ranked among the top six leading causes of death for Illinois residents aged 1-44 in 2013. The Illinois Department of Public Health currently collects data on… read moreAnalysis of Zero-Inflated and Overdispersed Time Series: An Application to Syphilis Surveillance in the United States
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Time series data involving counts are frequently encountered in many biomedical and public health applications. For example, in disease surveillance, the occurrence of rare infections over time is often monitored by public health officials, and the… read moreCan we identify bellwether states with respect to syphilis incidence?
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The time series of syphilis cases has been studied at the country and state level at the yearly basis, and it has been found that syphilis has a periodicity of approximately 10 years. However, to inform prevention efforts, it is important to… read moreWho Should We Be Listening to? Applying Models of User Authority to Detecting Emerging Topics on the EIN
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Emerging event detection is the process of automatically identifying novel and emerging ideas from text with minimal human intervention. With the rise of social networks like Twitter, topic detection has begun leveraging measures of user influence… read moreUS Destinations of Newly Arrived Immigrants and Refugees with Suspect TB, 2009-2010
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Immigrants and refugees are required to undergo tuberculosis (TB) screening before entering the United States (US)(1). Nearly 700 overseas panel physicians designated by the US Department of State, perform these screenings (2). Over 450,000 new… read moreAiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission
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A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read moreDigital Surveillance of the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Identifying Hot-spots for Emerging Zoonoses
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The illegal wildlife trade is a multi-faceted, clandestine industry that has led to the disruption of fragile ecosystems, facilitated the spread of pathogens, and has led to the emergence of novel infectious diseases in humans, domestic animals, and… read more