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Dashboards as strategy to integrate multiple data streams for real time surveillance
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The mission of the Infectious-Disease-Epidemiology Department at the Robert Koch Institute is the prevention, detection and control of infections in the German population. For this purpose it has a set of surveillance and outbreak-detection systems… read more -
Data capture and visualization for a canine influenza outbreak - New York City, 2018
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Data-driven decision-making is a cornerstone of public health emergency response; therefore, a highly-configurable and rapidly deployable data capture system with built-in quality assurance (QA; e.g., completeness, standardization) is critical.… read more -
Data Science, Analytics and Collaboration for a Biosurveillance Ecosystem
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After the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense indicated biodefense would include emerging infectious disease. In response, DTRA launched an initiative for an innovative, rapidly… read more -
Detection of a Salmonellosis Outbreak using Syndromic Surveillance in Georgia
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Evidence about the value of syndromic surveillance data for outbreak detection is limited. In July 2018, a salmonellosis outbreak occurred following a family reunion of 300 persons held in Camden County, Georgia, where one meal was served on 7/27/… read more -
Developing Mindful and Targeted Data Visualizations for Diverse Audiences
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Tennessee has experienced an increase of fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses which has been almost entirely driven by the opioid epidemic. Increased awareness by medical professionals, new legislation surrounding prescribing practices, and mandatory… read more -
Developing Phenotypes from Electronic Health Records for Chronic Disease Surveillance
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Chronic diseases, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus (diabetes), obesity, and hyperlipidemia, are some of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Monitoring disease prevalence guides public health programs… read more -
Development of a Custom Spell-Checker for Emergency Department Data
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Emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance relies on a chief complaint, which is often a free-text field, and may contain misspelled words, syntactic errors, and healthcare-specific and/or facility-specific abbreviations. Cleaning of the chief… read more -
Development of a Recurrent Neural Network Model for Prediction of Dengue Importation
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In recent years, mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika, chikungunya, and dengue have become particularly problematic due to global climate change. Rising temperatures and changes in precipitation are considered to be associated with habitat… read more