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  • Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019.  Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more
    … View the slides here Friday, March 1, 2019 - 12:00 Document ASTHO_Partners_ESOOS.pdf Submitted by uysz on Wed, … for large variance in text entries and coding ▪ National guidance – National definition will provide a good starting …
  • 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
    … (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA). Document Biosense_Program_Redesign.pdf Submitted by hparton … 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
    … surveillance resources in public health practice. Document … 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
    … Health Informatics course at the University of Utah. Document … informatics projects and systems. Each module contains a guidance file, one or more voice- over-power-point lectures, …
  • A Syndrome Track and Reporting System in Hillsborough County Florida: Findings from a Systematic Evaluation

    Content Type: Abstract

    One of the first county-wide syndromic surveillance systems in the nation, the Syndromic Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) has been in operation since 11/01/2001, and now covers Hillsborough, Pinellas and Collier counties.… read more
    … methods, and aberration investigation. Document … efficiency, characteristics of aberration detection, and guidance procedure for aberration investigation. Syndrome …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 4

    Content Type: Report

    A Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop was held in Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 4 on May 12-13, 2015 at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA. This was the seventh workshop in a… read more
    … in identifying their learning needs and methods with guidance by a facilitator. Using a limited emergency … condition of interest. Participants then identify and document their perceived benefits and barriers to SyS data …
  • Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada

    Content Type: Abstract

    In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more
    … Canadian syndromic surveillance systems of the future. Document … interface. A technical overview paper has been written to document the extensive alterations that have been included …
  • Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more
    … event detection and timely public health surveillance. Document … in the new system allowing authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. …