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Experts Collaborate to Develop a Standardized Syndrome Definition for Cold-related Illness
Content Type: Success Stories
In winter, people are at risk for cold-related illness (CRI) such as hypothermia. Deaths coded as weather-related from 2006 through 2010 showed exposure to excessive cold as the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.1… read more… Trend data can be used to develop winter weather toolkits, such as those used in Kansas and Wisconsin. … Trend data can be used to develop winter weather toolkits, such as those used in Kansas and Wisconsin. … -
Cold-Related Illness - CSTE
Content Type: Syndrome
Cold-Related Illness Query: Guidance for Implementing Cold-Related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice In winter, people are at risk… read more… 17 • Appendix 1: Kansas Cold Weather Toolkit • Appendix 2: Wisconsin Winter Weather Toolkit 3 … Wisconsin Department of Health Services winter weather toolkit. This toolkit was supported in part by the … -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
Content Type: Abstract
This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.… was implemented using the open-source Stan- ford NLP toolkit. The presence or absence of all fre- quently … -
Real-time, reusable, dynamic public health surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
The resources available in most public health departments are limited. Access to trained technical personnel and stateof-the-art computing resources are also lacking. Customizable off-the-shelf systems contribute only to creation of information… read more… interesting possibilities to expand this surveillance toolkit. This is an Open Access article distributed under … -
Public Health Data and the Law
Content Type: Webinar
This presentation addresses the legal principles framing the collection, use, and release of health data for public health activities, including issues such as privacy, confidentiality, HIPAA, and data use agreements. Presenter… read more… and-schools-toolkit/comparison-of-ferpa-and-hipaa-privacy-rule/ FOIA … ness/public-health-emergency-law/public-health-and-schools-toolkit/comparison-of-ferpa-and-hipaa-privacy-rule/ … -
Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption
Content Type: Abstract
To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more… be a valuable addition to the public health surveillance toolkit and has been recognized provincially and … -
Discover the 2014 ISDS Conference
Content Type: Webinar
Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2014 ISDS Conference! This webinar will highlight the… read more… #2014ISDS 2014 Conference Resources • Travel Request Toolkit: hPp://www.syndromic.org/annual-‐conference/ … request-‐toolkit • Funding opportuni?es: – Award for … -
Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters
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Computational and statistical methods for detecting disease clusters, such as the spatial scan statistic, have become frequently used tools in epidemiology. However, they simply tell the user where a cluster is, and leave the… read more… 26, pp. 1481-1496, 1997. [2] [2] F. Hardisty, "The GeoViz Toolkit," in Auto-Carto, Las Vegas, NV, 2005. [3] [3] S. …