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  • Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts

    Content Type: Webinar

    On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more
    … Host ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees Document Coletta.pdf Document Gunn_Part1.pdf Document Gunn_Part2.pdf Document Kite_Powell.pdf Document …   Develop%clinical%guidance%   Media%   …
  • Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … additional public health objectives in the future. Document … published by the CDC (10, 11). It was designed under guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health …
  • Analytic Methodologies for Disease Surveillance Using Multiple Sources of Evidence

    Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation is for public health practitioners and methodology developers interested in using statistical methods to combine evidence from multiple data sources for increased sensitivity to disease outbreaks. Methods described will account for… read more
    … Discussion of roles and scope of multivariate analysis Document Analytic_Methodologies_Webinar_Report.pdf Document Analytic_Methodologies_Webinar_Slides.pdf … •  Network  structures:    mainly  heuris4c,  based  on  guidance  from   medical  epidemiologist     •  Condi4onal …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more
    … system to generate and validate BTA profiles. Document … actions during the course of the disaster, as well as document potential areas for future mitigation efforts. …
  • Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System

    Content Type: Abstract

    When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more
    … narratives • Present a variety of use cases and results Document Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using … identification software module which we named “Dr. T” (Document Reviewing Tool). The module uses a combination of …
  • Data and Text Mining in Analysis of the Emergence of H5N1 Virus Strain

    Content Type: Abstract

    OBJECTIVE This paper describes a series of data mining techniques used to gather and analyze and disseminate large amounts of data from numerous sources in English as well as Chinese. The objective of the analysis is to attempt to identify locations… read more
    … or future outbreak of the A-H5N1 strain of the flu virus. Document … simplified Chinese into English. The translated Chinese documents are then made available to a categorization …
  • Using a real time syndromic surveillance system to track heat related illnesses during a heat wave

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD), which serves a county population over 890,000, began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … illness during the July 2011 Heat Wave in Indianapolis. Document … Plan. http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPS/DHS/Preparedness/ Documents/Appendix%20G-Heat%20Cold%20Plan%202009- …
  • 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
    … Time Thursday, June 28, 2012 Host ISDS Research Committee Document Pnnl_Isds_Tweet4ds.pdf Document Social-Media-Monitoring-Cameron.pdf Document Twitter-Disease-Surveillance-Salathe_Isds.pdf … is a set of terms that typically occur within the same documents and a set of documents from which those terms have …