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  • Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria

    Content Type: Abstract

    Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the tropical diseases, but is also the most neglected.Though significant advances have been made in the understanding both the disease and its control, there is general lack of information about… read more
    … use of the results for further epidemiological studies. Document … for Rapid Mapping of Bancroftian Filariasis in Africa. Document WGO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2000.9. Geneva: WHO. Advances in …
  • Securing protected health information in NC DETECT

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more
    … patient data during both integration and reporting. Document … functionality which allows authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. …
  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more
    … health actions that reasonably follow from surveillance, guidance can be found in the principles known as the “Fair … providers and pub- lic health agencies. CDC technical guidance and stipulations attached to the funding also shape … requirements generally (7), the absence of specifi c guidance from the Court makes it diffi cult to determine how …
  • Automatic Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) New Monitoring and Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of farm animals. There is a critical need for countries to have a global FMD situational awareness. Monitoring the online news sources for FMD-related news… read more
    … at the University of Arizona and the FMD Lab at UC Davis. Document … medical domain. Pant created a topical spider to get a document collection which can help to locate relevant …
  • BioSense program redesign

    Content Type: Abstract

    The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more
    … situational awareness capability. Methods With input and guidance from our local, state, and federal surveillance …
  • Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project

    Content Type: Abstract

    In October 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded four institutions, including Emory University, to conduct evaluations of the BioSense surveillance system. These evaluations include investigations of situations… read more
    … by the Emory University team. METHODS With general guidance from CDC and in collabora- tion with the other …
  • Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more
    … informatics projects and systems. Each module contains a guidance file, one or more voice- over-power-point lectures, …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 3 - Legacy Data Conversion and Transition Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … Scientist, CDC Max Worlund,  ICF Lindsay Brown,  Deloitte Document Biosense_Platform_Dataflow_Part3_Slides.pdf … DEVELOPMENT ü  Create baseline Master Facility Tables ü  Document new data flow ü  Document ESSENCE seLngs ü  Document legacy data flow ü  …