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  • Animal Health Surveillance in the US: How do we go from good to great?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenter  Dr. Brian McCluskey Brian received a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University in 1987 and following graduation was in large animal practice, primarily dairy, in western… read more
    … Fomites   !  Vehicles   !  First  diagnosed  in  US  in   May,  2013   !  Iowa  herd   !  Retrospective  testing   … Flocks Birds Annual Tests Egg-type Chicken 261 3,283,982 26,156 Primary Broiler 1,058 10,157,252 215,488 Meat-type …
  • Urban Metabolism Metrology: a powerful approach for tracking narcotic use and emerging pathogens in populations around the world

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented October 26, 2018. Urban Metabolism Metrology (UMM) is a new scientific discipline that can inform on the health, sustainability and resilience of urban human populations. By way of case studies on opioids and antimicrobials, this… read more
    … Presented October 26, 2018. Urban Metabolism Metrology (UMM) is a new … Key Information from the Mouth of the WWTP http://pixgood.com/school-community-clipart.html Wastewater Treatment Plant … Happens to Antimicrobials in Soap? 15 About 450,000 lbs/y of triclosan and triclocarban are applied inadvertently on …
  • HealthSIS: a solution for Local Public Health Reporting and Surveillance in KY

    Content Type: Abstract

    Multiple options (1,2) are available for health care provider organizations to receive assistance in demonstrating compliance with meaningful use requirements for public health reporting (3). A certified EHR solution is a requirement for… read more
    … struggling with health data exchange. SearchHealthIT.com. Retrieved August 11, 2011, from … BMC Res Notes. 2011;4:187. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/4/187 *Timothy Ellis E-mail: tim.ellis@emergint.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 …
  • Recursive Least Squares Prediction of Syndromic Data for Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a method to predict syndromic data for surveillance of public health using the method of recursive least squares and a new method of correcting for the day of week effect in order to have a prediction of… read more
    … prediction results are practically worthless. My approach to this issue is a two-step method. Assume the … be represented by two Gaus- sian random variables X and Y , with associated distribution functions ( )Xf x and ( )Yf y . A first set of corrections are made by considering a …
  • Rapid classification of autism for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation given August 3, 2017 describes work toward applying machine learning methods to CDC’s autism surveillance program. CDC’s population-based autism surveillance is labor-intensive and costly, as it requires clinicians to manually… read more
    … settings1 1. Rice et al. IMFAR 2014 https://imfar.confex.com/imfar/2014/webprogram/Paper17138.html Current diagnostic … 14.6 (13.6-15.7) 0.94 Boys 25.4 (23.5-27) 24.1 (22.3-26.1) 0.95 Girls 5.5 (4.6-6.5) 4.9 (4.1-5.9) 0.89 … Predict- DSM-1A + 120 49 DSM-1A - 51 9946 Sensitivity: 70.2% PPV: 71.0% Cohen kappa: 0.71 ROC AUC: 0.962Fasttext, …
  • Electronic Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) Vendor Analysis

    Content Type: Report

    Public health agencies have to work with a several disparate systems, a lack of robust reporting capabilities, and a lack of standardized surveillance, along with inherent funding challenges. The purpose of this analysis is to help state and local… read more
    … ...........................................................26 This Analysis: A Platform to Launch a Vendor Selection … Office: (512) 697-9450 Email: MMarostica@atlasdev.com Vendor Analyses Each vendor analysis includes a profile … Officer Office: (503) 295-7970 Email: stuart@csinitiative.com Collaborative Software Initiative (TriSano) …
  • Development of public health communication tools using open source methods

    Content Type: Abstract

    Secure and confidential exchange of information is the cornerstone of public health practice. Often, this exchange has to occur between public health agencies across jurisdictions. Examples include notification of reportable diseases… read more
    … was developed using open source software, PHP and My SQL. The novel concept adopted by Apple iTunes App Store …
  • The National Operational Epidemiological Modeling Process

    Content Type: Webinar

    Participants will be provided with an overview of a study to determine the requirements of a national operational modeling process, including the study, methodology, and key findings. These include an overview of the current operational… read more
    … the Federal Interagency Date and Time Monday, November 26, 2012 Host ISDS Public Health Practice Committee Document … to meet criteria. Re-alignment of existing resources may be necessary, but limited requirement for new or … response stakeholder decision support processes 26 32 18 AGGREGRATE SCORE COA’s Aggregate Scores Findings …