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  • How Oregon Tested its Mass Gathering Protocol and Mobilized Communities

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings (e.g., concerts, festivals, sporting events, political rallies, and religious gatherings) pose unique challenges to public health officials. Risks associated with large events can vary and are influenced by factors such as crowd… read more
    … and share dashboards, graph results), screen shots, and guidance on interpreting data.  This guide provided … situational awareness.  For planned events, develop guidance for using syndromic surveillance ahead of time. … Oregon Health Authority Oregon.ESSENCE@state.or.us Document NSSP-Success-Story-OR-Mobilization.pdf 23 views …
  • National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Sharing Workgroup - Report

    Content Type: Report

    This report summarizes a series of Data Sharing Workgroups that occurred in 2014 and 2015. Purpose of the workgroups: To provide community input on topics related to data sharing functionalities in the BioSense platform. Summary of work: The… read more
    … Sharing Functionality in BioSense 2.0 January 2015 This document is intended for sharing with the BioSense … expanded data sharing agreements but feels that without guidance from the Governance Group on the above issues, this …
  • TN Onboarding Presentation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides summarize the process in Tennessee for onboarding hospitals' syndromic surveillance data into BioSense.
    … View the slides here Friday, May 1, 2015 - 12:00 6 views Document …  Health  objec5ves  for  Meaningful  Use   On-­‐Boarding  Guidance   Documents   •  TDH  Meaningful  Use: … Send  TP  message   correcJons  to  be   corrected       Document  what  errors  have  been   corrected  and  send …
  • Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more
    … recommends in their 2016 HRI syndrome query guidance document: … Health Services District Dylan.Kent@pinalcountyaz.gov Document Abstract_2018_01_Enhanced Surveillance of … References 1. Heat-Related Illness Syndrome Query: A Guidance Document For Implementing Heat-Related Illness …
  • A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more
    … of clinical reports for public health surveillance. Document … currently supports the following six features: view of documents to be annotated,management of a lexicon, document annotation using the lexicon,view of annotation …
  • Estimated range of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in the United States, 2017

    Content Type: Report

    CDC has updated the estimated range maps for Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes by using a model that predicts possible geographic ranges for these mosquitoes in the contiguous United States. The model used county-level records, historical… read more
    … dialog.] Summary The checker found no problems in this document. Needs manual check: 0 Passed manually: 2 Failed … title bar Bookmarks Passed Bookmarks are present in large documents Color contrast Passed manually Document has …
  • Letter to BioSense Governance Group Re: Recommendations for improving BioSense's data sharing capability

    Content Type: Letter

    This letter was intended to establish a dialogue between surveillance professionals and the BioSense Governance Group. The particiapnts were interested in establishing data sharing relationships across jurisdictions utilizing BioSense… read more
    …     1. A  user  guide  that  provides  practical  guidance  for  using  BioSense  in  practice   (including …  data,  it  would  be  useful  to  have  a     4 short  document  describing  the  jurisdictional  data  and  any …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 2 - Introduction to ESSENCE Configuration for BioSense Platform

    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
    … Data Management Team Shayne Galloway , Health Scientist Document Biosense_Platform_Dataflow_Part2_Slides.pdf … 2. DEVELOPMENT ü  Create baseline Master Facility Tables ü Document data flow o  Establish data mart o  Develop User …