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Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT)
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
The Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT) is an evaluation tool developed by CDC and external influenza experts that assesses the potential pandemic risk posed by influenza A viruses that currently circulate in animals but not in humans. The IRAT… read more -
Shelter Health Surveillance
Content Type: Success Stories
During the 2017 Houston floods Lauren Leining worked with the the American Red Cross to visit each disaster victim in a shelter to do bed evaluations, but learned it was a very common thing for people to refuse treatment for a variety of… read more -
Coagulopathy Cluster Syndromes (Laced and Synthetic Marijuana)
Content Type: Syndrome
Attached is a word document with multiple syndromes that we have found useful during the coagulopathy cluster situation. Most used queries are highlighted in yellow. These queries were created in response to marijuana, particularly synthetic… read more -
Anthrax Assist: Modeling Tool for Planning and Decision Support During Early Days of an Anthrax Event
Content Type: Webinar
Presented April 24, 2018. *This article was selected as the second prize awardee of the 2018 ISDS Awards for Outstanding Research… read more -
Text mining using tidy data principles
Content Type: Webinar
Presented April 25, 2018. Text data is increasingly important in many domains, and tidy data principles and tidy tools can make text mining easier and more effective. I will demonstrate how we can manipulate, summarize, and visualize the… read more -
Fact Sheet: Indian Health Service and Military Medical Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Requirements
Content Type: References
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) can help clinicians improve decisions regarding opioid prescribing. However, since state laws and regulations governing access to these systems often apply only to providers licensed in the states in… read more -
Data Brief: Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs
Content Type: References
Using the National Cancer Institute’s 2017 Health Information Trends Survey, the Office of the national Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) reports on access and use of online medical records and the use of technology such as… read more -
Automated Classification of Alcohol Use by Text Mining of Electronic Medical Records
Content Type: Abstract
EMRs are a potentially valuable source of information about a patient’s history of health risk behaviors, such as excessive alcohol consumption or smoking. This information is often found in the unstructured (i.e., free) text of physician notes. It… read more