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Public health data sharing policy and informatics initiatives at China CDC
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Construction of data-sharing network for public health is one of the national scientific data-sharing projects, based on the data resource that distributed at China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), universities, research… read more… (China CDC), Beijing, Peoples Republic of China E-mail: yingjie924@yahoo.com.cn Objective The objective of … -
Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0
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Regional disease surveillance systems allow users the ability to view large amounts of population health information and examine automated alerts that suggest increased disease activity. These systems require users to view and… read more… lack of automatic notification for new events/comments. Email notification will be implemented in ECC 2.0. The … -
Expanding the Functionality of Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Data Mining and Query Development
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The Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System (PHESS) currently receives approximately 5,000 near real-time chief complaint messages from 55 hospital emergency departments daily. The ISDH partners with the Regenstrief Institute to… read more… file was developed to execute a SQL query script and email the results in html format to staff. For this initial … -
Approaches to Prediction Models for Poison Control Center-Based Syndromic Surveillance for Foodborne Illness
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To construct and validate a prediction algorithm that detects early increases in laboratory reports of enteric illnesses on the basis of calls to a poison control center reporting suspected foodborne illnesses.… ADS 2007;2:101. Further Information: Mary Derby, mpderby@email.arizona.edu Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:100 … -
International System for Total Early Disease Detection (InSTEDD) Platform
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This paper describes a hybrid (event-based and indicator-based) surveillance platform designed to streamline the collaboration between domain experts and machine learning algorithms for detection, prediction and response to health-related events (… read more… from several sources (SMS messages, RSS feeds, email list (e.g., ProMed), documents, web pages, electronic … -
A Closer Look at Developing a Statewide Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural State
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This paper describes the issues associated with the creation of a statewide emergency department syndromic surveillance system, part of the South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN), in a predominately rural state.… using EARS-SAS3, and provide results using an automatic email notification. Summary results and actual syndrome … -
Using UMLS Semantic Network to Identify Search Terms for Biosurveillance
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The variability of free text emergency department (ED) data is problematic for biosurveillance, and current methods of identifying search terms for symptoms of interest are inefficient as well as time- and labor-intensive. Our ad… read more… Further In- formation: Debbie Travers, dtravers@email.unc.edu Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:69 … -
The Utility of Biosurveillance for Public Health Practice: The Findings from Two Case Studies
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States and localities are using biosurveillance for a variety purposes including event detection, situational awareness, and response. However, little is known about the impact of biosurveillance on the operational components… read more… and Tarrant County, Texas Advance Practice Center. Site visits were conducted to each of these cases in July, 2007 …