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Public Health Surveillance in a Large Evacuation Shelter Post Hurricane Harvey
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Hurricane Harvey made landfall along the Texas coast on August 25th, 2017 as a Category 4 storm. It is estimated that the ensuing rainfall caused record flooding of at least 18 inches in 70% of Harris County. Over 30,000 residents were displaced and… read more -
Exploring the Value of Learned Representations for Automated Syndromic Definitions
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Comprehensive medical syndrome definitions are critical for outbreak investigation, disease trend monitoring, and public health surveillance. However, because current definitions are based on keyword string-matching, they may miss important… read more -
Using Electronic Health Records for Public Health Hypertension Surveillance
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Hypertension (HTN) is a highly prevalent chronic condition and strongly associated with morbidity and mortality. HTN is amenable to prevention and control through public and population health programs and policies. Therefore, public and population… read more -
Utility of Nontraditional Data Sources for Early Detection of Influenza
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Influenza surveillance is conducted through a complex network of laboratory and epidemiologic systems essential for estimating population burden of disease, selecting influenza vaccine viruses, and detecting novel influenza viruses with… read more -
Wikipedia: a tool to monitor seasonal diseases trends?
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Today, Internet, especially Wikipedia, is an important part of everyday life. People can notably use this popular free online encyclopedia to search health-related information. Recent studies showed that Wikipedia data can be used to monitor and to… read more -
Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using PraedicoTM, A Next Generation Application
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Many methods to detect outbreaks currently exist, although most are ineffective in the face of real data, resulting in high false positivity. More complicated methods have better precision, but can be difficult to interpret and justify. Praedico™ is… read more -
Fact Sheet: Declared States of Emergency - Opioid Crisis
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High rates of morbidity and mortality among Americans related to opioid use constitute a public health epidemic, leading multiple jurisdictions to declare formal states of emergency or public health emergency. Declaring a state of emergency grants… read more -
Wisconsin's Novel Approach to Creating a Health Outcomes Opioid Surveillance System
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Objective Wisconsin is leading the way in novel approaches monitoring health outcomes for opioid-related adverse events. This panel will share innovative public health informatics methods that harness various data sources (e.g… read more