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EpiCore: Crowdsourcing Health Professionals to Verify Disease Outbreaks
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EpiCore draws on the knowledge of a global community of human, animal, and environmental health professionals to verify information on disease outbreaks in their geographic regions. By using innovative surveillance techniques and crowdsourcing these… read more -
A Global Landscape of Participatory Disease Surveillance
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Citizen engagement in public health is being transformed through systems that enable users to directly report on symptoms of disease via email and smartphone technology. Participatory systems encourage routine submission of syndromic data by the… read more -
Data and Text Mining in Analysis of the Emergence of H5N1 Virus Strain
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OBJECTIVE This paper describes a series of data mining techniques used to gather and analyze and disseminate large amounts of data from numerous sources in English as well as Chinese. The objective of the analysis is to attempt to identify locations… read more -
Data Integration and Analytics within the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System
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This presentation introduces the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Bio-Surveillance Integration System (NBIS) and the analytics functionality within the NBIS that integrates and analyzes structured and unstructured data streams… read more -
Data-Adapted Temporal Alerting Algorithms for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper discusses selection of temporal alerting algorithms for syndromic surveillance to achieve reliable detection performance based on statistical properties and the epidemiological context of the input data. We used quantities calculated from… read more -
Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for outbreak detection using real-world syndromic data. The widely used EARS [1] methods and other adaptive implementations assume implicitly… read more -
Death Certificate Surveillance in New Hampshire
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The Death Certificate Surveillance was implemented in October 2001 to enhance New Hampshire's ability to monitor for bioterrorism and other public health threats, such as communicable diseases and chemical exposures. In 2003, this surveillance… read more -
Rapid Processing of Ad-Hoc Queries against Large Sets of Time Series
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Time series analysis is very common in syndromic surveillance. Large scale biosurveillance systems typically perform thousands of time series queries per day: for example, monitoring of nationwide over-thecounter (OTC) sales data may require… read more