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  • Disease Surveillance among Katrina Evacuees in Shelters - Use of a Web-Based Surveillance System during an Emergency Response

    Content Type: Abstract

    On Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Outside of the affected areas of TX, LA, MS, and AL, GA received the largest number of these evacuees, approximately 125,000. By August 30, 2005, GA began receiving a total of… read more
    … conditions re- sulted in medical care provided inside (70 refer- rals/1,000 resident-days) and outside (9 refer- … Accessed: May 22, 2006. [2] KM McNeill, et al. Surveillance for …
  • Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more
    … that is, few labeled irrelevant (or relevant) articles may be available because of labeling bias (or to the … N, Doan S, Kawazoe A, Goodwin RM, Conway M, Tateno Y, et al. BioCaster: detecting public health rumors with a …
  • Timeliness of Over-the-Counter Drug Sales as an Early Indicator of Community Disease Outbreaks in Hong Kong

    Content Type: Abstract

    Overseas studies showed that increases in over-the-counter (OTC) drug sales might serve as an indicator of community disease outbreaks before they are detected by conventional surveillance systems. Using data collected… read more
    … factors such as advertising, pricing and sales promotion may affect the overall sales of common cold medications. …
  • Learning Specific Detectors of Adverse Events in Multivariate Time Series

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes how powerful detectors of adverse events manifested in multivariate series of bio-surveillance data can be learned using only a few labeled instances of such events.
    … by being able to raise an alert even if none of the com- ponent signals is critical, but if some of them are … powerful specific detectors of adverse events in mul- tivariate time series data, even if the number of …
  • Multi-Method Comparison of Detecting Common Events of Public Health Interest: a Multi-Site, Multi-Stream Simulation Study

    Content Type: Abstract

    Existing statistical methods can perform well in detecting simulated bioterrorism events. However, these methods have not been well-evaluated for detection of the type of respiratory and gastrointestinal events of greatest… read more
    … Demonstration Program [4] from June 2005 through May 2006. The program covers approximately 10% of the …
  • Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more
    … well as what are the state legislated restrictions that may affect data access. The challenge is to control data …
  • Crafting Inter-Jurisdictional Data Exchange Agreements

    Content Type: Webinar

    Health information increasingly needs to flow beyond the jurisdiction in which it was originally collected. As both people and microbes move across jurisdictional boundaries with increasing speed and ease, so too must health information. With an… read more
    … I identified the relevant laws, policies and rules for my jurisdiction?  }  Do I know how the laws and policies of my trading partners different from my jurisdiction's? }  Have I had at least an initial …
  • ICD-10 Transition Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    The U.S. transition to International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM/PCS) on October 1, 2014 will have significant impact on public health entities. CDC's ICD-10 Transition Workgroup is offering a training session that will… read more
    … area Y92.7x Farm Y92.8xx Other specified place 26 Overview q  Why the transition q  Who else is affected … people §  Tools/GEMs 32 Implications for Systems Changes may be needed to accommodate the new codes: q  Extend … Association (AHA) §  http://www.ahacentraloffice.com/ahacentraloffice/shtml/ ICDstep1.shtml q  Heath …