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Letter to BioSense Governance Group Re: Recommendations for improving BioSense's data sharing capability
Content Type: Letter
This letter was intended to establish a dialogue between surveillance professionals and the BioSense Governance Group. The particiapnts were interested in establishing data sharing relationships across jurisdictions utilizing BioSense… read more… data only? What are the normal number of ED visits in a day? What proportion of the … -
Usage of Syndromic Surveillance Information to Assist Clinical Decision-Making
Content Type: Webinar
Speakers will be practicing clinician-researchers discussing needs for and ongoing usage of recent, local epidemiological information for decision support. Presenters Andrea Dugas, MD, Attending Physician… read more… ▫ Patient management ▫ Crowding / increased patient visits Surveillance with Google Flu Trends Why the Emergency … -
Understanding the Spectrum of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Sources and their Variation by Community
Content Type: Webinar
There is a saying in EMS that if you've "seen one EMS system, then you've seen one EMS system". Many EMS systems have good or even great data for surveillance and research, but while there are some standards developing for EMS data formats and… read more… be able to predict when diversion can occur Background ED visits rose from 90m in 92 to 107.5 m in 01, 20% Number of … -
Directionally Sensitive Multivariate Statistical Process Control Procedures with Application to Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Current syndromic surveillance systems run multiple simultaneous univariate procedures, each focused on detecting an outbreak in a single data stream. Multivariate procedures have the potential to better detect some types of outbreaks, but most of… read more… with the CDC's aggregate data on “percentage of visits for influenza-line illness reported by sentinel … to moderate in the United States.” The percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaked in February–March … was characterized as “mild,” with the percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaking in … -
Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities
Content Type: Abstract
Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more… the denominator of their choice (e.g., total ambu- latory visits, total number of patients tested for the condition, … -
Analytic Methodologies for Disease Surveillance Using Multiple Sources of Evidence
Content Type: Webinar
This presentation is for public health practitioners and methodology developers interested in using statistical methods to combine evidence from multiple data sources for increased sensitivity to disease outbreaks. Methods described will account for… read more… valida4on and prac4cal usage 61 Outpatient Visits Raw Data Stream Cleaning Analysis-based Filter … -
Evaluation of Microbiology Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as a Potential Data Source for Early Outbreak Detection
Content Type: Abstract
Animals continue to be recognized as a potential source of surveillance data for detecting emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism preparedness, pandemic influenza preparedness, and detection of other zoonotic diseases. Detection of disease… read more… rigorous surveillance efforts, increased veter- inary visits in reaction to a public service campaign, or other … -
Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
These slides were presented as a 60 minute oral presentation at the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Learning Objective To share our experiences at ISDS with setting up and managing communities of… read more… State and Federal Collaboration to Identify Spike in “Visits of Interest” 2 min Shandy 18 - New Hampshire …