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Placing surveillance in a preparedness business process framework
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Most public health workers could reach agreement on the general functions and operations regarding public health’s traditional operations, such as food safety inspections, outbreak investigations, or immunization clinics. However, there is much less… read more… N. PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza: A Quality Improvement Toolkit; RAND Health; 2008:217. Preparedness business … -
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/ … -
The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks
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In 2004, the NSW Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System operating in and around Sydney, Australia signalled a large-scale increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI). A subsequent… read more… surveillance to the routine public health surveillance toolkit. The proportion of outbreaks with a known organism … -
Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption
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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. … -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
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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
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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 …