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Assessing the Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Systems during Extreme Weather Conditions
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Recent extreme weather events have caused serious health and social problems across Europe. During the summer heat waves of 2003 across Europe, France recorded an excess of over 14,000 deaths contributed to heat-related causes. Other countries such… read more -
Automated Creation of High-Quality Maps Using SAS and Python
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New York City ED syndromic surveillance data uses SaTScan to detect spatial signals. SaTScan analysis has been integrated into SAS since 2002, and signal maps have been generated from SAS since 2003. Signal maps are created occasionally to… read more -
Automated Data Acquisition: Data Collection and Integration for the Alberta Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Net (ARTSSN)
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The ability to provide real time syndromic surveillance throughout the Capital Health Region is currently undeveloped. There are limited mechanisms for routine real time surveillance of disease or conditions of public health… read more -
Early effect of validation efforts of Massachusetts syndromic surveillance data
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As a participant in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has worked closely with our statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) and National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)… read more -
Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR
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Objective We performed a gold-standard manual chart review for gastro-intestinal syndrome to evaluate automated detection models based on both structured and non-structured data extracted from the VA … read more -
Automated Detection of Tuberculosis Using Electronic Medical Record Data
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Approximately one quarter of people treated for tuberculosis (TB) have no supporting microbiology, and thus are not detectable through laboratory reporting systems. Health departments depend upon clinicians to report these… read more -
Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters
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Computational and statistical methods for detecting disease clusters, such as the spatial scan statistic, have become frequently used tools in epidemiology. However, they simply tell the user where a cluster is, and leave the… read more -
Automated Information Integration from Heterogeneous Data Sources: A Semantic Web Approach
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Integration of information from multiple disparate and heterogeneous sources is a labor and resource intensive task. Heterogeneity can come about in the way data is represented or in the meaning of data in different contexts. Semantic Web… read more