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Baseline Assessment of Public Health Surveillance in the Kingdom of Swaziland
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Implementation of the IDSR framework for fulfillment of the International Health Regulations (2005) ([IHR 2005]) has been challenging in Swaziland due to distribution of IDSR functions across units within the Strategic Information Department (SID)… read more -
Automated Classification of Alcohol Use by Text Mining of Electronic Medical Records
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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 -
A practitioner-driven research agenda for syndromic surveillance
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To obtain feedback and seek future directions for an ISDS initiative to establish and update research questions in Informatics, Analytics, Communications, and Systems Research with the greatest perceived impact for improving surveillance practice. -
A regional approach for the influenza surveillance in France
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To describe the results of the new organization of influenza surveillance in France, based on a regional approach. This regional multi-source approach has been made possible by the sharing of data visualizations and statistical results through a web… read more -
A Spatial Biosurveillance Synthetic Data Generator in R
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To develop a spatially accurate biosurveillance synthetic data generator for the testing, evaluation, and comparison of new outbreak detection techniques. -
Adoption of Public Health Readiness Guidelines for Meaningful Use
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The Syndromic Surveillance Consortium of Southeast Texas (SSCSeT) consists of 13 stakeholders who represent 19 counties or jurisdictions in the Texas Gulf Coast region and receives health data from over 100 providers. The Houston Health Department (… read more -
Advancing GHSA: Lessons learned about strengthening HIS and disease surveillance
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RTI International has worked on enhancing health information and disease surveillance systems in many countries, including The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Guinea, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.… read more -
Advancing PH Emergency Preparedness Informatics to Support Emergency Responses
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The purpose of this project is to demonstrate progress in developing a scientific and practical approach for public health (PH) emergency preparedness and response informatics (EPRI) that supports the National Health Security Strategy and Global… read more