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Malaria: A New Model for Disease Eradication
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Defines the current state of impact of malaria. positioning the disease as leading cause of death by disease worldwide. In last 12 years, seven million lives have been saved with a reduction of 60% in fatalities.… read more… and in train depots. But with the advent of the cell phone, we have an novel, incredibly precise way to track … mobility. · By registering calls through nearest cell phone tower you can see where a phone is located, when it moves, how long it stays, and when … -
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… with presence of symptoms’. To obtain this data, a Smart- phone application was developed, intended for monitoring … 3 Årsand E, Tatara N, Østengen G, Hartvigsen G. Mobile-phone- basen self-management tools for type 2 diabetesFthe … -
Patient Management System Programmed Alert to Notify Providers of Suspected TB Cases
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An increase in tuberculosis (TB) among homeless men residing in Marion County, Indiana was noticed in the summer of 2008. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) hosted screening events at homeless shelters in hopes of finding… read more… as part of a follow-up to a TB outbreak investigation. A phone number of a MCPHD nurse on call is provided. The … that normal methods of locating these individual such as phone or address was not available. Additionally, other … -
Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?
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Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more… of an outbreak (23). Near the end of a patient’s visit to a healthcare facility, detailed information about … approxi- mately 40,000 adult patients a year, and patient visit data have been stored in the Medical Archival System … -
Use of Cell-Phones to Strengthen Malaria Surveillance-Response Systems of Bangka/Belitung, Indonesia - A proposal
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The Government of Indonesia (GoI) aims to eliminate Malaria by 2030 in 4 stages (Wismarini, 2009. To reach the elimination phase High Case Incidence (HCI) areas go through a pre-elimination phase. The aim of the proposed project is to support one of… read more… the Bangka Belitung Province, Sumatera, by means of cell phone (CP) applications through the following activities: 1) … Malaria; elimination; surveillance-response; cell-phone applica- tion; Indonesia References 1. Olumese P. … -
Human-learned lessons about machine learning in public health surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
Presented December 13, 2018. For public health surveillance, is machine learning worth the effort? What methods are relevant? Do you need special hardware? This talk was motivated by these and other questions asked by ISDS members. It will focus… read more… what was the reported blood pressure during last office visit? – [Unsupervised learning] Represent patterns and … -
Implementation and Comparison of Preprocessing Methods for Biosurveillance Data
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Modern biosurveillance relies on multiple sources of both prediagnostic and diagnostic data, updated daily, to discover disease outbreaks. Intrinsic to this effort are two assumptions: (1) the data being analyzed contain early indicators… read more… data. Examples are daily counts of emergency room visits, over-the-counter (OTC) or prescription medication sales, school absences, doctors’ office visits, veterinary reports, or other data streams that could … E, Picard R, Umland E: Modeling emergency department visit patterns for infectious dis- ease complaints: results … -
Resolving the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' Syndrome
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To date, most syndromic surveillance systems rely heavily on complicated statistical algorithms to identify aberrations. The assumption is that when the statistics identify something unusual, follow-up should occur. However, with multiple strata… read more… Julie Plagenhoef, Julie.Plagenhoef@vdh.virginia.gov Phone: 804-864-8141 Advances in Disease Surveillance …