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Regional Governance of Syndromic Surveillance for the Texas Gulf Coast
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Syndromic surveillance systems are large and complex technology projects that increasingly require large investments of financial and political capital to be sustainable. What was once a minor surveillance tool in the mid-2000s has evolved into a… read more -
Relationship Between Baseline Influenza-like Illness Rates And Healthcare Settings
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The primary goal of syndromic surveillance is early recognition of disease trends, in order to identify and control infectious disease outbreaks, such as influenza. For surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI), public health departments receive… read more -
Template Memorandum of Understanding for IIS Interjurisdictional Exchange
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This document, issued on March 7, 2016, provides a template for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for secure, electronic exchange of immunization information among governmental entities that operate a population-based Immunization Information… read more -
Fact Sheet: Naloxone Access and Overdose Good Samaritan Law in Ohio
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This fact sheet, developed by the Network for Public Health Law and published August 29, 2018, summarizes Ohio's laws to combat the opioid overdose crisis. Read more about this resource at … read more -
Natural Language Processing and Technical Challenges of Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance
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Processing free-text clinical information in an electronic medical record (EMR) may enhance surveillance systems for early identification of ILI outbreaks. However, processing clinical text using NLP poses a challenge in preserving the semantics of… read more -
One Health in Action: Lyme Disease
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Lyme disease is an emerging disease in Michigan and is the most commonly reported vector-borne illness. The bacterium causing Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted to humans or dogs through the bite of an infected tick. In the spring of… read more -
Using Health Information Exchange to Improve Use of Prescription Monitoring Data
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Washington State experienced a five-fold increase in deaths from unintentional drug overdoses between 1998 and 2014. The PMP collects data on controlled substances prescribed to patients and makes the data available to healthcare providers, giving… read more -
Factors Influencing the Stability and Quality of the French ED Surveillance System
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Since 2004, the French syndromic surveillance system Oscour® has been implemented by the national institute for public health surveillance (InVS) and is daily used to detect and follow-up various public health events all over the territory [1].… read more