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Validation of the Michigan's Public Health Syndromic System Using Electronic Medical Records
Content Type: Abstract
Michigan has been collecting chief complaint data from emergency departments statewide to support situational awareness activities related to communicable disease since 2004. We validated the syndromic system by comparing the chief complaint data to… read more -
Biosurveillance Adaptable Framework for Teaming, Exploration and Reuse (BioAFTER)
Content Type: Abstract
Next-generation software environments for disease surveillance will need to have several important characteristics, among which are collaboration and search and discovery features, access to various data sets, and a variety of analytic methods.… read more -
Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) Workflow Analysis
Content Type: Abstract
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Chemical and Biological Technologies Directorate (DTRA CB) has initiated the Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) research and development program. Work process flow diagrams, with associated explanations and… read more -
A Second Chance: Overdose Prevention, Naloxone, and Human Rights in the United States
Content Type: Report
This report, published April 2017 from Human Rights Watch, explores measures required for an effective program to prevent opioid overdose deaths and current legal, policy and other challenges to be addressed. -
Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health
Content Type: Report
A report jointly released by the de Beaumont Foundation and Johns Hopkins University, Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health: Example Cases and Legal Analysis provides public health departments with a framework that… read more -
Virtual Speed Networking with the Analytic Solutions Committee (ASC)
Content Type: Webinar
Presented January 11, 2018. The purpose of the event was to stimulate and facilitate constructive communication and collaboration among analytic method developers and practitioners charged with routine public health surveillance, ranging from… read more -
Content Analysis of Tobacco-related Twitter Posts
Content Type: Abstract
Vast amounts of free, real-time, localizable Twitter data offer new possibilities for public health workers to identify trends and attitudes that more traditional surveillance methods may not capture, particu- larly in emerging areas of public… read more -
COPD-Related ED Visits in North Carolina: Hospitalizations and Return Visits
Content Type: Abstract
COPD is a prevalent chronic disease among older adults; exacerbations often result in ED visits and subsequent hospital admissions. A portion of such patients return to the ED within a few days or weeks. In this study, we investigated patterns… read more