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  • FITS - Flu Immunization Tracking System: Capturing County Level Data to Inform Public Health Practice

    Content Type: Abstract

    Historically, it has been the role of local health departments to administer, monitor, and report flu vaccinations of its residents to the state health department. In 2009, the looming threat of an influenza outbreak (H1N1) led to the extension of… read more
    … health professionals were invited to a system users training to orient them with the system, record management …
  • Linking Informatics and Cross-Programmatic Public Health Strategic Objectives

    Content Type: Abstract

    There is national recognition of the need for cross-programmatic data and system coordination and integration for surveillance, prevention, response, and control implementation. To accomplish this public health must develop an informatics competency… read more
    … a common informatics lexicon and workforce engagement and training are critical to public health, especially for …
  • Use of Cell-Phones to Strengthen Malaria Surveillance-Response Systems of Bangka/Belitung, Indonesia - A proposal

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Government of Indonesia (GoI) aims to eliminate Malaria by 2030 in 4 stages (Wismarini, 2009. To reach the elimination phase High Case Incidence (HCI) areas go through a pre-elimination phase. The aim of the proposed project is to support one of… read more
    … management (HMM) data reporting by households. 3) To train village midwifes or village malaria workers (VM/ MW) … examination by the HC parasitology microscopist. 4) To train HC parasitology microscopists to perform microscopic … Lab for reliability testing. 6) To provide consultations, training and resources for the D/ MHOs to facilitate the …
  • National Health Insurance: a new application for non-specific surveillance in Reunion Island

    Content Type: Abstract

    In Reunion Island, the non-specific surveillance was mainly developed during A(H1N1) influenza pandemic in 2009. In March 2010, a new surveillance system was implemented from National Health Insurance data. This monitoring was based on the weekly… read more
    … were calculated during these 134 weeks, using a training period of at least 3 years. A 95% confidence …
  • A multidisciplinary approach to an outbreak of canid Rabies in Gauteng Province, South Africa

    Content Type: Case Study

    On 3rd of June, 2010 a sick dog was presented to an Animal Welfare Agency. Biliary treatment unsuccessful and the dog was euthanased and tested positive for Rabies on FAT. In this mixed rural urban area of South Africa Rabies is an occasional… read more
    … __x_ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration ___ Training and Resources ___ Technologies and Methodologies …
  • Education as a mechanism to reduce spread of brucellosis among at-risk populations in Uzbekistan

    Content Type: Abstract

    One goal of the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the enhancement of surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union. One of the… read more
    … healthcare professionals, delivered through BTRP regular training events, together with printed materials to be …
  • Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

    Content Type: Webinar

    Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more
    …   Document Mapping_Tool_Between_Icd9_Icd10_Slides.pdf … Training Session Mapping Tool between code sets: ICD-9-CM … Learn more at www.syndromic.org Training)Session:) Mapping)Tool)between)two)code)sets) …
  • Application and Visualization of Twitter Data for Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    The panelists will present their current technical research using Twitter data for disease surveillance. Presentation topics may include filtering and processing of tweets, as well as the analysis and presentation of findings for surveillance… read more
    … and negative examples of Tweets have been labelled in a training set. This training set then used to construct the classifier. The …