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Using National Health Insurance Claims Data to Supplement Notifiable Infectious Disease Surveillance System
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Introduction Infectious disease surveillance is very important as an element in public health system in the prevention and control of infectious diseases. Results of the Korean National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (KNNDSS) has contributed… read more -
The Burden of Seasonal Respiratory Pathogens on a New National Telehealth System
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Seasonal rises in respiratory illnesses are a major burden on primary care services. Public Health England (PHE), in collaboration with NHS 111, coordinate a national surveillance system based upon the daily calls received at the NHS 111 telehealth… read more -
The Epidemiologic Charateristics, Healthcare Associated and Household Transmission Dynamics of EVD Outbreak in a South-Southern City of Nigeria
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Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe illness that spread in the human population through human-to-human transmission. In the past, EVD outbreaks occurred in the rural communities of Africa, near tropical rainforests, but the most recent outbreak in… read more -
The Impact of Documentation Style on Influenza-Like Illness Rates in the Emergency Department
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In recent years, the threat of pandemic influenza has drawn extensive attention to the development and implementation of syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of ILI. Emergency department (ED) data are key components for syndromic… read more -
The Impact of Standardized Decision Support on Syndromic Surveillance in Alberta
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Syndromic surveillance uses pre-diagnostic data to inform communicable disease prevention and control. Among health zones in the province of Alberta, Canada, practices employed by public health when using elementary school illness-cause absenteeism… read more -
The Public Health Community Platform: Implementing Electronic Case Reporting
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The PHCP is a community-led initiative to provide shared infrastructure, services, and applications to the public health community as solutions for complex public health informatics problems. The project has progressed by establishing a governance… read more -
An Evaluation of the Biosense 2.0 "Poisoning by Medicines" Syndrome Using Chief-Complaint Data in Utah
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BioSense 2.0 uses predetermined syndromes based upon ICD-9 codes and chief complaint data to allow users to view and analyze data from emergency department (ED) visits, yet further validations of these syndromes are needed. Previous studies have… read more -
Analytics, Machine Learning & NLP -- use in BioSurveillance and Public Health practice
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Currently, there is an abundance of data coming from most of the surveillance environments and applications. Identification and filtering of responsive messages from this big data ocean and then processing these informative datasets to gain… read more