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FITS - Flu Immunization Tracking System: Capturing County Level Data to Inform Public Health Practice
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Historically, it has been the role of local health departments to administer, monitor, and report flu vaccinations of its residents to the state health department. In 2009, the looming threat of an influenza outbreak (H1N1) led to the extension of… read more… Health Manage Pract.2000;6:67�75. *Lauren Drinkard E-mail: ldrinkar@kent.edu (page number not for citation … -
Mobile Technology Systems for Surveillance in Low Resource Settings
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Mobile technology provides opportunities to monitor and improve health in areas of the world where resources are scarce. Poor infrastructure and the lack of access to medical services for millions have led to increased usage of mobile technology for… read more… for Disease Control and Prevention. *Donna Medeiros E-mail: donna_d_medeiros@yahoo.com (page number not for … -
A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice
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Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more… centers; sustained relationships *Michael Coletta E-mail: mcoletta@naccho.org (page number not for citation … -
The Implementation of an Outbreak Management Solution in New York State
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Most outbreaks are small and localized in nature, although it is larger outbreaks that result in the most public attention. So a solution to manage an outbreak has to be able to accommodate a response to small outbreaks in a single jurisdiction… read more… informatics; integrated system *Hwa-Gan Chang E-mail: hgc04@health.state.ny.us (page number not for citation … -
Inferring Travel from Social Media
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The spread of infectious diseases is facilitated by human travel. Infectious diseases are often introduced into a population by travelers and then spread among susceptible individuals. Likewise uninfected susceptible travelers can move into… read more… modeling; surveillance; twitter *Alessio Signorini E-mail: alessio-signorini@uiowa.edu (page number not for … -
A Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Model for Syndromic Surveillance: Properties and Model Performance
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Syndromic surveillance uses syndrome (a specific collection of clinical symptoms) data that are monitored as indicators of a potential disease outbreak. Advanced surveillance systems have been implemented globally for early detection of infectious… read more… syndromic surveillance. Under Revision. 2011. *Jian Zou E-mail: zoujian@iupui.edu (page number not for citation … -
Can we identify bellwether states with respect to syphilis incidence?
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The time series of syphilis cases has been studied at the country and state level at the yearly basis, and it has been found that syphilis has a periodicity of approximately 10 years. However, to inform prevention efforts, it is important to… read more… Sex Transm Dis. 1997;24:443�8. *Mauricio Monsalve E-mail: mauricio-monsalve@uiowa.edu (page number not for … -
Ten Years After Amerithrax: Have Improvements to Our Bioterrorism and Influenza Surveillance Networks Enhanced Our Preparedness?
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems by state and local health departments for the detection of bioterrorist events and emerging infections has greatly increased since 2001. While these systems have proven useful for tracking influenza and… read more… Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010;59:872�7. *Alan Siniscalchi E-mail: alan.siniscalchi@ct.gov (page number not for citation …