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Real-time surveillance of influenza/pneumonia deaths: new strategies using grid computing and natural language processing
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Surveillance of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia using death records has the potential to be a relatively inexpensive and quick approach to tracking and detecting influenza and respiratory illness outbreaks; however, presently such a system… read more… and 3Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: kailah.davis@utah.edu Objective This poster presents … -
Exploring illness prediction in type 1 diabetes mellitus pre-symptom onset
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Illnesses like infections, cold, influenza and so on in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients, can compromise the daily patient administered diabetes treatment. This in turn may result in fluctuating blood glucose concentrations,… read more… and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark E-mail: jonas@fauerbylauritzen.dk Objective To develop an … -
Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals
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The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system… read more… Security Division/Office of Water, Cincinnati, OH, USA E-mail: ahaas2@csc.com Objective To develop standard operating … -
Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals
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The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system (CWS) detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system. The… read more… Security Division/Office of Water, Cincinnati, OH, USA E-mail: ahaas2@csc.com Objective To develop standard operating … -
Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more… Indianapolis, IN, USA; and 11NLM, Bethesda, MD, USA E-mail: guy.divita@hsc.utah.edu Objective The Consortium for … -
Real-time, reusable, dynamic public health surveillance
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The resources available in most public health departments are limited. Access to trained technical personnel and stateof-the-art computing resources are also lacking. Customizable off-the-shelf systems contribute only to creation of information… read more… Informatics, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA E-mail: Parsa.Mirhaji@uth.tmc.edu Objective This paper … -
Samos: a community-driven open-access prediction market system
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Prediction markets are a type of futures market in which users trade shares that pay off if the event to which they are connected occurs. They are used to aggregate knowledge on a large scale, as the prices of the various contracts can be… read more… Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA E-mail: james-paton@uiowa.edu Objective This poster presents a … -
The use of Craigslist posts for risk behavior and STI surveillance
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The rise and associated risks of using the internet to find sexual partners among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been noted by many researchers.1,2 The anonymity and relative ease of finding partners on the internet has facilitated casual… read more… Research Group, University of Iowa, Iowa, IA, USA E-mail: jason-fries@uiowa.edu Objective This paper describes a …