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Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use
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In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more… *Charles Ishikawa E-mail: cishikawa@syndromic.org (page number not for citation … -
US Destinations of Newly Arrived Immigrants and Refugees with Suspect TB, 2009-2010
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Immigrants and refugees are required to undergo tuberculosis (TB) screening before entering the United States (US)(1). Nearly 700 overseas panel physicians designated by the US Department of State, perform these screenings (2). Over 450,000 new… read more… http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DRO/dro_org.html. *Deborah Lee E-mail: DLEE1@cdc.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Digital Surveillance of the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Identifying Hot-spots for Emerging Zoonoses
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The illegal wildlife trade is a multi-faceted, clandestine industry that has led to the disruption of fragile ecosystems, facilitated the spread of pathogens, and has led to the emergence of novel infectious diseases in humans, domestic animals, and… read more… Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2001;356:6. *Amy Sonricker Hansen E-mail: alhansen@albany.edu (page number not for citation … -
Uganda and Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program Case studies in Applied epidemiology No. 001 - 815
Content Type: Case Study
WHO designated yellow fever as an endemic disease in Ethiopia in the early 1950s. Yellow fever, a zoonotic hemorrhagic fever disease (sylvatic and urban types), are endemic in Ethiopia due to its geographical location and climatic conditions… read more… program, Federal Ministry of Health COUNTRY: Ethiopia Email: zegeyehailemariam@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU … -
SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance
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Health care information is a fundamental source of data for biosurveillance, configuring electronic health records to report relevant data to health departments is technically challenging, labor intensive, and often requires custom solutions for… read more… ! EMR Vendors: Cerner, Allscripts, Siemens, VA World Vist, OpenMRS, Microsoft ! Major payors ! Pharma ! Major … -
Syndromic surveillance in animal health: public, animal and food safety
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Early detection of diseases in animal populations is key to protecting the health of companion animals and livestock. Safeguarding the health of animals aims at protecting human populations from diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans… read more… periods Minimum temperature Daily heat related number of visits in ED Assessment of the heat indicator during 2006 … onsAZ/RealtimeSyndromicSurveillance/) ED visits for malaise, desydration in order to identify early … -
Dengue Surveillance and Control: One Health Case Study
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Pakistan being a subtropical region is highly susceptible to water-borne, air-borne and vector-borne infectious diseases (IDs). Each year, millions of its people are exposed to, and infected with, deadly pathogens including hepatitis, tuberculosis,… read more… Analytics Research (C-SVAR), UET Lahore COUNTRY: Pakistan Email: asif.ali@kics.edu.pk; mna@uet.edu.pk WHAT DOMAIN(S) … -
Discovering the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC)
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The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) serves to enable early warning and shared situational awareness of acute biological events and support better decisions through rapid identification, characterization, localization, and tracking… read more… § Email: • NBICOHA@hq.dhs.gov 22 …