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Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health
Content Type: Report
A report jointly released by the de Beaumont Foundation and Johns Hopkins University, Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health: Example Cases and Legal Analysis provides public health departments with a framework that… read more -
Content Analysis of Tobacco-related Twitter Posts
Content Type: Abstract
Vast amounts of free, real-time, localizable Twitter data offer new possibilities for public health workers to identify trends and attitudes that more traditional surveillance methods may not capture, particu- larly in emerging areas of public… read more -
COPD-Related ED Visits in North Carolina: Hospitalizations and Return Visits
Content Type: Abstract
COPD is a prevalent chronic disease among older adults; exacerbations often result in ED visits and subsequent hospital admissions. A portion of such patients return to the ED within a few days or weeks. In this study, we investigated patterns… read more -
Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Abstract
An objective of the Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project is to improve situational awareness of the health of combined VA and DoD populations. DoD and VA both use versions of the Electronic Surveillance System… read more -
Data Quality: A Systematic Review of the Biosurveillance Literature
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Data quality monitoring is necessary for accurate disease surveillance. However it can be challenging, especially when “real-time” data are required. Data quality has been broadly defined as the degree to which data are suitable for use by data… read more -
#wheezing: A Content Analysis of Asthma-Related Tweets
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Recently, a growing number of studies have made use of Twitter to track the spread of infectious disease. These investigations show that there are reliable spikes in traffic related to keywords associated with the spread of infectious diseases like… read more -
A Bayesian Approach to Characterize Hong Kong Influenza Surveillance Systems
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Syndromic surveillance has been widely used in influenza surveillance worldwide. However, despite the potential benefits created by the large volume of data, biases due to the changes in healthcare seeking behavior and physicians’ reporting behavior… read more -
A Binational Influenza Surveillance Network – California/Baja California
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In response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the Early Warning Infectious Disease Surveillance Program Office of Binational Border Health in the California Department of Public Health sought to strengthen outpatient ILI surveillance along the CA/BC… read more