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Enhancing the BioSense Platform: Findings from an ESSENCE and SAS Pilot Project
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BioSense was launched in 2003 by CDC with its primary aim to establish an integrated system of nationwide public health surveillance for the early detection and prompt assessment of potential bioterrorism-related syndromes or other public health… read more -
Ensuring the Week Goes Smoothly - Improving Daily Surveillance Visualization
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Real-time syndromic surveillance requires daily surveillance of a range of health data sources. Most real-time data sources from health care systems exhibit large day of the week fluctuations as service provision and patient behaviour varies by day… read more -
Outbreak Report: Opioid-Related Overdose - Huntington, West Virginia, August 2016
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This report, published January 27, 2017 by the Office of Epidemiology and Prevention Services with the West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, is an outbreak report developed in response to an opioid-related overdose incident that… read more -
Zika Virus Speed and Direction: Reconstructing Zika Introduction in Brazil
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Local transmission of Zika virus has been confirmed in 67 countries worldwide and in 46 countries or territories in the Americas. On February 1, 2016 the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to… read more -
2015 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference Harnessing Data to Advance Health Equity
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) will hold its fourteenth annual conference in Denver, CO on December 10th and 11th, 2015. The society's mission is to improve population health by advancing the science and practice of… read more -
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Estimating Influenza Epidemic Severity
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Timely monitoring and prediction of the trajectory of seasonal influenza epidemics allows hospitals and medical centers to prepare for, and provide better service to, patients with influenza. The CDC’s ILINet system collects data on influenza-like… read more -
A Comparison of Clinical Surveillance Systems in New York City
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The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records and the formation of Health Information Exchanges has opened up new possibilities for public health monitoring. Since 2009, The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)… read more -
A Method for Detecting and Characterizing Multiple Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases
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We describe an automated system that can detect multiple outbreaks of infectious diseases from emergency department reports. A case detection system obtains data from electronic medical records, extracts features using natural language… read more