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  • Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics to detect disease outbreaks and other health-related events earlier than other forms of surveillance. Although… read more
    … by ICD-9 code and chart review), date and location of visit and patients’ zip code of residence. We also accessed …
  • Applications of the ESSENCE Desktop Edition for Outbreak Detection in a Resource-Limited Setting

    Content Type: Abstract

    Recent events have focused on the role of emerging and re-emerging diseases not only as a significant public health threat but also as a serious threat to the economy and security of nations. The lead time to detect and contain a novel emerging… read more
    … AFHSC-GEIS, USAMC-AFRIMS and JHU-APL. References 1. Binder S, Levitt AM, Sacks JJ, Hughes JM. Emerging …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 4): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the New York City Implementation

    Content Type: Webinar

    Our final Meaningful Use Dialogue will provide insight into New York City’s use of ambulatory EHR records. Steve Di Lonardo and Dr. Winfred Wu plan to discuss the potential benefits, limitations and challenges of extracting data from ambulatory… read more
    … fever, cough, etc..)  When are they documenting? (during visit or transcribed at a few days later?)  Billing codes …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & Interpretation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … Notify and Engage Partners/Leadership Conduct Reach-back Conduct Response Management Agenda Develop Protocols … data with other data sources Social Vulnerability data (lack of education, low income, single parent, unemployed, …
  • Executive Summary of the ISDS DTRA Consultancy Project 2014-2017

    Content Type: Report

    The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) fills the need for a practical forum and coordinating mechanism for collaboration among subject matter experts (SMEs) from stakeholder groups that may normally not interact but who, when… read more
    … Another issue that generated great discussion was the lack of opportunity to train existing health department … or to learn how to connect with ISDS, please visit www.healthsurveillance.org or email the ISDS Executive …
  • Reportable Disease Cluster Detection in the Context of Sporadic Adoption of PCR-based Diagnostic Tests

    Content Type: Use Case

    Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance: Reportable Disease Cluster Detection in the Context of Sporadic Adoption of PCR-based Diagnostic Tests consultancy call held May 3, at 12 pm ET. Problem… read more
    … to the CC/discharge diagnosis fields affect how an ED visit is defined. If the change is substantial, using 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
    … behavior1  Impairments in social communication • e.g., lack of eye contact, inability to hold a conversation  … a PPV of 0.61  Other symptoms will be difficult: – (c) a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, … in the reciprocal activity of throwing the ball back and forth with the examiner." "Child reportedly does …
  • 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
    …  4me,  manpower  to  design  systems   –  Widespread  lack  of  sufficient  human  analysts/inves4gators   –  Oven …  funding     •  Diverse  professional  cultures  can  hinder  collabora4on  as  much  as   na4onal,  ethnic …