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  • Open Source Syndromic Surveillance Transport Tool

    Content Type: Webinar

    ISDS, in cooperation with the Community for Population and Public Health Measures (COPHM), is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar to be held on June 13th. The purpose of this webinar is to inform ISDS members, EHR technology developers, and… read more
    … support MU Stage 2 attestation. Further Information q  www.cophm.org q  Kieran Dunne – Kieran.Dunne@agilex.com q  ISDS Recommendations §  http://www.syndromic.org/uploads/files/ …
  • Student Rotation in a Veterinary Teaching Hospital as a Potential Surveillance Confounder

    Content Type: Abstract

    Identifying potential biases and confounders that may affect data quality is an important consideration when evaluating surveillance systems. Having the benefit of predictable temporal trends is a key requirement to improve upon… read more
    … Further Information: Loren Shaffer, loren.shaffer@hmsinc.com www.hmsinc.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:264 …
  • Real-Time Surveillance: Cutting-Edge Technology in NH

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Automated Hospital Emergency Department Data (AHEDD) System was designed to detect early indicators of bioterrorism and naturally occurring health risks. Initial development includes real-time data collection from four pilot hospitals, an… read more
    … as investiga- tion by either syndrome or symptom (a chief com- plaint text field value). In comparing the manual sys- … Corpo- ration. Retrieved June 27, 2006, from http://www.stchome.com/downloads/Handouts/Zhang%20Method ology.pdf. Further …
  • 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
    … these consultancies are available on the ISDS website at www.healthsurveillance.org. These consultancies generated … available at: https://knowledge- repository.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/Asyndromic%20Cluster%20Detection%20Report.FINAL_ … on the website. • National Library of Medicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html This program is …
  • Development and Evaluation of a Data-adaptive Algorithm for Univariate Temporal Biosurveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Numerous recent papers have evaluated algorithms for biosurveillance anomaly detection. Common essential problems in the disparate, evolving data environment include trends, day-of-week effects, and other systematic behavior.… read more
    … 2007, Statistics in Medicine, available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- bin/fulltext/114131913/PDFSTART. 2. Brillman JC, …
  • An Outbreak Detection Algorithm that Efficiently Performs Complete Bayesian Model Averaging Over All Possible Spatial Distributions of Disease

    Content Type: Abstract

    Many disease-outbreak detection algorithms, such as control chart methods, use frequentist statistical techniques. We describe a Bayesian algorithm that uses data D consisting of current day counts of some event (e.g., emergency department (ED)… read more
    … an- thrax outbreaks described in [1]. Each outbreak con- sisted of a simulated time series of patient cases that each presented to an ED with a respiratory chief com- plaint and a home zip code. The probability that a case … in Artificial Intelli- gence (2004) 94-104. [2] http://www.dbmi.pitt.edu/panda/papers/Shen/ISDS07.pdf Advances in …
  • Epibasket: a prototype web tool aimed to speed up and standardize the epidemiological investigation of an outbreak

    Content Type: Abstract

    The detailed analysis of the epidemiological literature on the 2003 SARS epidemic published in peer reviewed journals has shown that a majority (78%) of the epidemiological articles were submitted after the epidemic had ended,… read more
    … W Xing et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 70 value might include the Impact Factor … a time-stratified review. PLoS Med 2010;7:e1000272. 2 See www.prestashop.com, quexml.sourceforge.net/, and www. limesurvey.org. Web …
  • Evaluating the use of syndromic surveillance for the detection of influenza-like illness in Salt Lake County, Utah

    Content Type: Abstract

    Salt Lake Valley Health Department uses syndromic surveillance to monitor influenza-like illness (ILI) activity as part of a comprehensive influenza surveillance program that includes pathogen-specific surveillance, sentinel… read more
    … and M Hill.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 72 Department plans to collect ILI data … Monitoring Systems, Inc, EpiCenter, v 2.6.3. http://www. hmsinc.com/service/epicenter.html. 4 Centers for Disease Control …